By Hadley Meares — 2016
Hildegard of Bingen fought the patriarchy from her cloister.
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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?
The imam talks activists as politicians, her Syrian refugee father, and a non-digital world.
Since the summer, Ms. Khan, a former architectural designer, has emerged as an eloquent and indefatigable public face of the maelstrom surrounding Park51, the Islamic community center and mosque that she and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, are trying to build two blocks north of ground zero.
Barber’s newsmaking actions were founded on the idea that being a person of faith means fighting for justice.