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Aired: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7-8PM ET
Asra Nomani was born in India and raised Muslim in Morgantown, West Virginia. She became a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Just months after 9/11, she was in Karachi, Pakistan when her friend and fellow reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed. Then the Muslim father of her child balked at marriage.
Now, Asra Nomani is balking at Islam, as practiced in the world today. Fundamentalist leaders are strengthening their grip on Muslim communities around the world, she says. Her mission is to create a movement that allows Muslim women to not only pray next to men, but to also lead prayers.
Hear a conversation with Asra Nomani about her campaign to change how Islam is practiced in America and the world.
| · | Asra Nomani, author of "Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam" and former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. |
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Kyrgyzstan Upheaval |
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In Kyrgyzstan today, 5,000 protestors stormed the presidential compound in the capital city of Bishkek. Within hours of the largely non-violent revolt, the country's president, Askar Akayev, had fled the palace and, reportedly, the country.
In an emergency session, the Parliament installed opposition leaders as acting president and prime minister, and gave them until Friday to form a new government for the Central Asian country.
Fred Wier, Moscow correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, describes the sequence of today's events and their culmination in Kyrgyzstan.
| · | Fred Wier, Moscow correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor |
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Go Panthers |
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They have taken the sports world by storm with their hustle and grit and consecutive upsets of national college basketball powerhouses. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers are the lowest ranked team remaining in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.
But their scrappy, never-say-die style of play is winning fans and striking fear across the country -- especially in neighboring Illinois, home of the top-ranked Illini, which Panthers will square off with next.
Nick Dettman, a senior at UWM and the sports editor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Post, explains if Panther fever has taken over the Milwaukee campus.
| · | Nick Dettmann , sports editor for the The UWM Post -- the independent weekly campus newspaper. |
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