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HARDtalk: Sherin Khankan

Female imam wants 'new narratives' on Islam

09/10/2018 GMT

BBC News - HARDtalk, Sherin Khankan

Stephen Sackur speaks to Scandinavia's first female Imam, Sherin Khankan.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Sherin Khankan who became Scandinavia's first female Imam when she opened the Mariam mosque in Copenhagen. Is Islam ready to empower women?

Almost two billion of the world's people are Muslim, and yet half of them, the female half, have traditionally played little or no role in the institutions of their faith. That is changing, albeit very slowly. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Sherin Khankan who became Scandinavia's first female Imam when she opened the Mariam mosque in Copenhagen. Her focus on women's rights in a 21st century brand of Islamic practice has stirred controversy and debate far beyond Denmark's borders. Is Islam ready to empower women?

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