This is an interesting piece, recommended to listen with patience.
Leila Ahmed - Professor of divinity at Harvard - has some very good points. And Prof. Shaheen from University of Peshawar really gives an insight to their struggle in Pakistan against what they consider laws in Sharia that are un-Islamic.
Oct. 22, 2003
In Iran, a woman wins the Nobel Prize for Peace. In France, Muslim women are fighting to keep their headscarves. And in India, female Islamic scholars advise women on issues from make-up to child-rearing. Join host Neal Conan while we look at how Islamic women reform Islam from the inside out.