By Krista Cox — 2020
Who’s the first person who comes to mind when you think of humanism or atheism? A follow-up question: Did you just think of a man?
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The imam talks activists as politicians, her Syrian refugee father, and a non-digital world.
Scandinavia’s first female-led house of Islamic worship, where Friday prayers are for women only, is riling conservatives.
When an ostensibly secular state tests its Muslim citizens by skirting the edge of insult, the result is deeper division and alienation on both sides: the racist right vs. the anti-West Islamists.
Sherin Khankan, 45, is Denmark’s first female Imam and the founder of Exitcircle, an NGO for victims of psychological abuse.
Negative stereotypes abound of how women are treated under Islam. But there's a new movement of women-led mosques who are challenging this, and making both Muslims and non-Muslims think differently about the faith.
She is a controversial figure – not just as a female imam, but as a woman who has called for the reformation of Islam with a feminist agenda. Janice Turner meets Sherin Khankan at Europe’s first all-female mosque.