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Three and a half years after 9/11, a Black American feminist scholar of Islam called Dr. Amina Wadud became the first woman imam to lead a mixed-gender Friday congregational prayer--100 of us--50 women and 50 men. #20thanniversary911
It was one of the most moving moments of my life. The prayer was co-sponsored by the (now defunct) Progressive Muslim Union of North America (PMUNA), of which I was a board member. #20thanniversary911 
The PMUNA had come to be in the aftermath of 9/11, as part of the vigorous internal Muslim arguments and debates those awful attacks had shaken into being. Remember: al-Qaeda has killed more Muslims than non-Muslims. #20thanniversary911 feministgiant.com/p/the-day-afte…
On the anniversary of #September11, I usually remember those killed in the attacks and the many more killed in the wars of revenge in Afghanistan and Iraq. And I quote from June Jordan's Some of Us Did Not Die feministgiant.com/p/essay-some-o…
“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?” June Jordan asked in a keynote presentation at Barnard College on Nov 9, 2001.
Days after 9/11, a man tried to set my local mosque on fire and to shoot 2 Muslim men who tried to stop him in Seattle, where I lived at the time. He was too drunk to succeed.
Twelve years later, another man succeeded in setting my brother's local mosque on fire in the Midwest.
Twelve years later, another man succeeded in setting my brother's local mosque on fire in the Midwest.
