Memories of Muhammad Why the Prophet Matters

Quote: Asra Q Nomani (born 1965) is an Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist, known as a controversial liberal activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements. She teaches journalism at Georgetown University and is co-director of the Pearl Project,[1][2] a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The project is based at the Center for Public Integrity. She is the author of two books, Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam and Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love, and of the "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Bedroom", the "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque", and "99 Precepts for Opening Hearts, Minds and Doors in the Muslim World". Her work is the subject of a documentary, The Mosque in Morgantown, aired nationwide on PBS as part of the series, America at a Crossroads