Asra Nomani: Fighting for the Soul of Islam

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
June 15, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/572/asra-nomani-fighting-for-the-soul-of-islam

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Asra Q. Nomani, is best known for many things. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, she is also the author of Standing Alone In Mecca. An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam. Nomani is a religious Muslim feminist who organized the first-ever woman-led, mixed-gender Islamic prayer group in New York City in 2005, and who made a good faith effort to bring her hometown mosque in Morgantown, West Virginia into the twenty-first century, both in terms of women and tolerance.

Nomani, born in Bombay but raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, is also the last friend whom Daniel Pearl saw before he was kidnapped, held captive, and be-headed on video. Pearl was staying at Nomani's rented home in Pakistan. Currently, Nomani teaches journalism at Georgetown University where she co-leads the Pearl Project, which will publish their discoveries about what really happened to Daniel Pearl.

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