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 About Us Our Niyya About The Banner Image The Team 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 About Us About Us Welcome to ProgressiveIslam.Org, an online community for Muslims of all theological orientations to gather and engage in creative, thoughtful and intelligent discussion and debate. ProgressiveIslam.Org is an online town commons created for Muslims of all theological orientations to gather and engage each other through sharing our news, insights, opinions, stories, art, and scholarship.  Just like at an old town commons, ProgressiveIslam.Org offers its resources to the community to build practical connections by providing space for social networking, education, activism, and forums for debate.  It is our sincere hope that through this space and others like it we can avoid the tragedy of the commons by working with each other toward a unified community of diverse Muslims. You can find out about our projects and efforts in the Projects Section. For information on the ProgressiveIslam.Org team, visit our Team section or our Team Weblog. If you have questions, you can us.   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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