The sounds of Helen Reddy’s 1972 anthem to the women’s liberation movement, “I Am Woman,” filled the Irvine hotel ballroom where several hundred participants gathered Saturday for the American Muslim Women’s Empowerment Conference.
The song selection was fitting because the message speakers gave was basically the same as it was four decades ago: Know your rights, and exercise them.
But there was an added twist: By standing up for their rights inside and outside the home, American Muslim women can be a force against religious and political extremism.
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(LA Times) Conference aims to empower U.S. Muslim women
The sounds of Helen Reddy’s 1972 anthem to the women’s liberation movement, “I Am Woman,” filled the Irvine hotel ballroom where several hundred participants gathered Saturday for the American Muslim Women’s Empowerment Conference.
The song selection was fitting because the message speakers gave was basically the same as it was four decades ago: Know your rights, and exercise them.
But there was an added twist: By standing up for their rights inside and outside the home, American Muslim women can be a force against religious and political extremism.
Read it all.