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I think Asra shows amazing courage and strenght getting the true message about her faith and her desire to to have a oppurtunity to show the world the importance of speaking the truth she is a woman who is willing to stand up and work at making the world better for all women who wish to live their faith and is a example to all people about how try and create partnership. I continue to pray for Asra and hope that she will be embraced and accepted by all who share a desire to live in a faithful way.
THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN premieres on PBS stations nationwide June 15 at 10 pm ET This documentary is one American Muslim journalist's story that involved the murder of her friend Daniel Pearl, who after returning home to West Virginia, saw some warnings signs at her hometown mosque. This is one brave woman who did something after she heard the hate and intolerance being preached at her own mosque. She deserves our attention: JOURNALIST ASRA NOMANI glimpsed Islamic extremism up close when her dear friend and former Wall Street Journal colleague Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan. When she returns home to West Virginia to raise her son, she believes she sees warning signs at the local mosque: exclusion of women, intolerance toward non-believers, and suspicion of the West. Her resulting campaign against extremism in the Islamic Center of Morgantown brings a storm of media attention, unexpectedly pitting her against the mosque's moderates. Through unfolding scenes and intimate interviews, THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN frames this local conflict as a means to explore the larger dilemmas facing American Islam. It tells a story of competing paths to social change, American identity and the nature of religion itself. Watch the trailer; The current...
THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN premieres on PBS stations nationwide June 15 at 10 pm ET This documentary is one American Muslim journalist's story that involved the murder of her friend Daniel Pearl, who after returning home to West Virginia, saw some warnings signs at her hometown mosque. This is one brave woman who did something after she heard the hate and intolerance being preached at her own mosque. She deserves our attention: JOURNALIST ASRA NOMANI glimpsed Islamic extremism up close when her dear friend and former Wall Street Journal colleague Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan. When she returns home to West Virginia to raise her son, she believes she sees warning signs at the local mosque: exclusion of women, intolerance toward non-believers, and suspicion of the West. Her resulting campaign against extremism in the Islamic Center of Morgantown brings a storm of media attention, unexpectedly pitting her against the mosque's moderates. Through unfolding scenes and intimate interviews, THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN frames this local conflict as a means to explore the larger dilemmas facing American Islam. It tells a story of competing paths to social change, American identity and the nature of religion itself. Watch the trailer; The current...
she is a woman who is willing to stand up and work at making the world better for all women
who wish to live their faith and is a example to all people about how try and create partnership.
I continue to pray for Asra and hope that she will be embraced and accepted by all who
share a desire to live in a faithful way.