Mission

Free Hearts Free Minds offers trauma-informed psychosocial support to people from Muslim backgrounds suffering from religious trauma. The experience of renouncing any religion of your family, community, and society is a devastating and traumatic ordeal for millions of people around the globe. However, those who renounce Islam face the most dire risks. As of 2023, leaving Islam is punishable by death in 12 Muslim-majority countries. In addition to state-sanctioned persecution, apostates face the risk of social isolation, violence, imprisonment, torture, disownment and honour killing. While there are a range of support services available to people who suffer from religious trauma stemming from fundamentalist Christianity, those with a background in Islam have nowhere else to turn. Free Hearts Free Minds is the only non-profit on the planet that is focused on their unique and specific needs.