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Woman leads Muslim Friday prayers

(19 Mar 2005) 1. Wide shot of Amina Wadud leading prayers 2. Close up of Wadud 3. Wide shot of Wadud leading prayers 4. Wadud leading prayers 5. High shot of group gathered for prayers, media and others 6. Wide shot, zoom to mid shot of Suehyla el-Attar singing the Muslim call to prayer 7. Men and women at prayers (men sat on one side of room, women the other side of room) 8. Cameraman 9. Muslimwakeup.com spokesman Ahmed Nassaf seated next to woman 10. Women at prayers 11. Woman leading prayers 12. Women and men at prayers 13. Wide shot press conference before prayer service 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amina Wadud, Professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and leader of today's prayers: "And I hope therefore that the benefit will be felt by every woman, by every Muslim woman, and by every Muslim man, as an act of devotion before Allah." 15. Reporters and others 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahmed Nassef, Muslimwakeup.com: "This is an event that's taken 14-hundred years for us to have as Muslims. This is something that's just as important for men as it is for women, because only when men realise the equal space that they need to share with women, in our mosques, in our communities, only then will we realise the true nature of what it means to be Muslim." 17. Cathedral of St. John the Divine (on left), pan to Synod House next door 18. Protesters 19. Protest sign reading "Mixed Gender Prayer Today: Hellfire Tomorrow" 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nussrah (surname unavailable), American Muslim: "This is called blasphemy, and the penalty for blasphemy is death, it's simple as that." 21. Police outside Synod House 22. Wide shot of police outside Synod House STORYLINE: A female professor led an Islamic prayer service on Friday with men in the congregation despite sharp criticism from Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East who complained that it violated centuries of tradition. Amina Wadud, a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, led the service at Synod House at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, an Episcopal church in Manhattan. Some Islamic scholars have said they were aware of a few other mixed-gender prayer meetings led by women, mostly in the West, but they are rare. About 80 to 100 people attended the service, and the group appeared evenly divided between men and women. Most women wore the traditional Muslim headscarf and long, flowing robes. The event was meant to draw attention to the inequality of women in Muslim spiritual life and Muslim life in general, according to Asra Q. Nomani, an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter who was an organiser of the prayer. Some critics have accused Nomani of using the event to publicise a book she has written about women and Islam. Three New York mosques had refused to host the service, according to Nomani. It was moved to Synod House after a site that had earlier been selected for the service, an art gallery, received a bomb threat. There was a brief outburst from some protesters outside the building at the start of the service, but they were kept from entering by a heavy police presence. One young US-born, bearded activist, who only gave his name as Nussrah, said Wadud was not representative of Muslims. He said the event was "blasphemy, and the penalty for blasphemy is death". The call to prayer was led by an American Muslim of Egyptian descent, Suehyla el-Attar, who spoke in accented Arabic and didn't wear the traditional headscarf. Organisers said the service wasn't meant as a protest against Muslim traditions. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...