SobaViolence
10-16-2004, 11:02 PM
Progressive Muslims UNITE!
Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1097878212492&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)
``It seemed you belonged either in the secular world, or you went into traditional areas. There didn't seem to be a midway and I felt there were a lot of women like me in mainstream Canadian society.''
And not surprisingly, there are a lot of men like her, too.
Jamal, who is CEO of the centre, is part of a growing North American movement of progressive Muslims creating alternatives to more traditional, conservative organizations.
Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1097878212492&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)
``It seemed you belonged either in the secular world, or you went into traditional areas. There didn't seem to be a midway and I felt there were a lot of women like me in mainstream Canadian society.''
And not surprisingly, there are a lot of men like her, too.
Jamal, who is CEO of the centre, is part of a growing North American movement of progressive Muslims creating alternatives to more traditional, conservative organizations.