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...worshippers face Mecca. "Allahu akbar." Hands lift heavenward. "God is great." They bow as a voice leads them through the litany. "Alhamdulillah." From the familiar words to the leader's call and the 100-strong congregation's murmured response, the prayers sound much as they always do. "Praise be to God." Except that the voice leading them is a woman...
...York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine because no major mosque would play host to it. "There are still men who believe women are not allowed to be leaders. They're bullies," says organizer Asra Nomani, author of the new book Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam. "It's time that women take their rightful place alongside...
Nomani's fight began on her return to Morgantown, W.Va., from a pilgrimage to Mecca. "I experienced full and unfettered access to the holy mosque in Mecca," she says. Back in Morgantown, she decided to defy a ban that forbade women to use the front entrance and pray in the main hall with the men. Mosque leaders are considering banishing her for such disruptive behavior, but she feels she's making progress. She prays in the main hall now and says, "They just pretend I'm not there...
Before the end-of-the-season tournaments begin, the team will compete in the water polo Mecca that is the state of California over spring break. That’s where it will play...
...seemed perfect. Polls showed that many Europeans were upset with the U.S. and less inclined to buy its brands. Mathlouti reaped acres of free publicity, especially in France, where the Iraq war was deeply unpopular and Muslims account for about 10% of the population. Yet after a promising start, Mecca-Cola has fizzled. In France, its biggest market, sales dropped about 10% in 2004; its market share there is negligible--1% or less...