Anni Cyrus is a hero.
She abandoned the Islamic faith that she was born into and had to desert her homeland so she could be free from harsh religious control.
Her bravery should be an example to us all.
Not only because she left Islam but because she has done it publicly.
Many who do abandon their Islamic faith, do so in their hearts but through fear of retribution still continue to live as if they follow it, they become hypocrites because they are afraid of rejecting it publicly.
This is because the consequences of departing Islam range from rejection by friends and family to death for being an apostate and bringing shame and dishonour to the household.
Anni joins Hearts of Oak to share her story and to explain why she now spends her time speaking out and educating people about Islam.
Aynaz “Anni” Cyrus is the founder of ‘Live Up To Freedom’, she was born in 1983 into an Islamic family in Iran, after the Islamic Revolution removed the Shah and turned the “mini-America” of the Middle East into an Islamic tyranny. Given no choice, Aynaz was labeled as a Muslim by birth. Under Sharia (Islamic Law) she grew up under total Islamic dominance by her father, a Sheikh, and her mother, a Quran teacher.
At age nine, Aynaz rejected Islam completely in her heart and mind. It happened on her 9th birthday when the Islamic state, in a public ceremony, declared the absurdity that she would be, from that day forward by law, an adult woman.
Over the next six years, Aynaz suffered terrible, but legal by Islamic Law, abuses and punishments at the hands of many Islamic males of Iran. After being forcibly sold by her own father into an extremely violent marriage, Aynaz desperately sought escape from her hell as a child bride. Even after being visibly battered one last time, the Islamic courts denied her a divorce from the man who was clearly bound to beat her to death.
So at age 15, facing death by one way or the other, Aynaz got herself smuggled out of Iran, to save her own life. Knowing nothing of the life of freedom for women and girls outside of Iran or Islam, she ran into what she calls “The Unknown.” But her running was a crime, for which, to this day, she stands condemned to death by stoning under Sharia.
Aynaz then gained asylum in Turkey through the United Nations. But, as an unaccompanied minor, she was obligated to wait three more years. Finally, at age 18 her petition to become an American citizen was approved. After a further delay following 9/11, Anyaz was allowed entry into the United States on August 8, 2002. She became a naturalized and proud American citizen in 2010.
Since 2011, Aynaz has produced the popular Internet video series, “The Glazov Gang”, hosted by renowned author in the counter-jihad movement, Dr. Jamie Glazov. Aynaz also appears in many of the show’s hundreds of segments. Years of her media appearances are found in public speaking venues, interviews, videos, and articles, published in affiliation with The David Horowitz Freedom Center, Jihad Watch, Breitbart, American Thinker, Worldview Weekend, and American Truth Project, to mention a few.
Follow and support Anni at …..
Website: https://liveuptofreedom.com/
GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/AnniCyrus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Anni_Cyrus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnniAynazCyrus/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/aynazcyrus/
Telegram: https://t.me/Liveuptofreedom
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BZPG190rO3tOcICwu3_2w
Interview recorded 22.7.22
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