There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work.
In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
Women are sacred.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.