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“Psychological Abuse Exists Everywhere.”

By Anne Sofie Hoffmann Schrøder — 2021

Sherin Khankan, 45, is Denmark’s first female Imam and the founder of Exitcircle, an NGO for victims of psychological abuse. Although her vocation has cost her a marriage and attacks from conservative Muslims, as well as right-wing politicians, she insists on the necessity to build bridges between worlds. She discusses her vocation in this interview.

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Daisy Khan, the “Ground Zero Mosque”—and 700 Million Muslim Women

She explained how, after 9/11, she felt a special responsibility to speak up for the vast majority of Muslims who embrace democracy and human rights, and to address the vexed issues of violence, status of women, leadership, and democracy within Islam. - Jesse Larner

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Jesse Larner
2011
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Daisy Khan, an Eloquent Face of Islam

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.

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Michael M. Grynbaum
2010
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Daisy Khan, Sr. Joan Chittister Talk Women in Leadership from Interfaith Perspectives

Because leaders are not ordained in Islam but rather chosen by the community, Khan said, there have been many Muslim women leaders in history. - Jason Mast

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Jason Mast
2016
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