A little bit of progress

Exciting news from the Muslim woman who was on the Faith and Feminism panel at Wiscon with Isabel. She had been invited to deliver a sermon and lead juma prayers in Toronto. Well, she's not only leading Friday prayers and delivering a sermon, but it's going to be in a mosque! She reports that there have been three or four women who have led prayers in the past few months, but none of them have been in a mosque. As far as she knows, this may be the first time both will be led/given by a woman in a mosque in hundreds of years. She doesn't expect mosques all over the Muslim world to follow suit, but any little advancement is fantastic.