About The Banner Image Our banner image this month is the interior of an Adobe Mosque built by an American Muslim family and their surrounding community. Read More. Main Menu Home Essays News Site News Online Resources About Us Links Projects Human Rights Project Muslim Spaces Women's Health Project Community Works Muslim Spaces Michael Knight Ginan Rauf Willow Omer Mozaffar Baraka Bashment 3RD Resurrection The Dissident's Lair Ali Eteraz Muslim Hedonist Hager Youssef The Team Home News New on ProgressiveIslam.Org New on ProgressiveIslam.Org Written by Laury Silvers    Sunday, 23 October 2005 Essays Section:  The essays section will be a resource of published and previously unpublished essays we feel are a resource for discussion in our community.  Each week we will be publishing a new essay on the front page.  Previous essays will be moved to a library archive where readers can continue to access them. We debuted our essays section with Imam Zaid Shakir's call for Muslims to struggle with the demands of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of a global community.  We followed that with Ginan Rauf's essay on secular humanism and hypocrisy.  Omid Safi's challenges for the Progressive Movement got a lot of readers.  We've solicited a piece from the PMU to hear their vision as well.  Hopefully we'll hear from them soon.  This week we have a selection from Michael Muhammad Knight's forthcoming book, Blue-Eyed Devil, and the week after that we'll have a poetic analysis of gender in the Qur'an by poet Robert Doto. Beyond Forum:  The Beyond Forum is a site for discussing real world religious issues in the imagined context of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative fiction, films, and television.  It's been a bit slow lately.  Nearly everyone on the forum is an academic and it's been the end of the semester.  It'll liven back up. Webspaces:   We've offered creative webspace to our contributors.  Each one will have their own front page that links to any on-line resources they want to make use of such as wikis, blogs, and forums. Comments Write Comment Please keep the topic of messages relevant to the subject of the article. Personal verbal attacks will be deleted. Please don't use comments to plug your web site.. Such material will be removed Name: Guest Title: Comment: Enter what you see: * tips: hit Reload page before writing a text if you have difficulty reading characters in image Powered by AkoComment 2.0! and SecurityImage 3.0.2 Last Updated ( Monday, 26 December 2005 )   < Prev Polls Top 10 Reasons Women cannot have Authority in Islam 10: Because then women would be in charge of everything! 9: Because next thing you know women scholars would prohibit wife-beating! 8: Because the gulab jamun wouldn't be waiting for the men when they got home! 7: Because women don't want to actually become scholars, they just want an MRS degree! 6: Because if a woman imam cannot lead the prayer when she has her period, then everyone would know she has her period! 5: Because women don't have the intellect to disentagle convoluted rulings tied up just so by the good 'ol boys! 4: Because the sound of a woman's voice reciting Qur'an drives men mad with desire! 3: Because a woman bending over while leading the prayer drives men mad with desire! 2: Because men might have to have the prayer and khutba piped in to them from another room like women do now. 1: Because men would have to earn access to authority instead of simply passing the penis-check at the door of the madrasa.    Food Bank ProgressiveIslam.Org would like to suggest that you consider giving Ramadan charity to Second Harvest, the national food-bank for the poor, or to your local food-bank.  Second Harvest has a local food bank finder on their front page if you need help or want to contribute locally.  We are building a  Community Portal Resource Page in the Women's Health Project.  Please tell us about services in your community. Syndicate

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