Muslim self-questioning

These are word so a USA Muslim which should help us to understand more about the real situation with regard to Islam in the West. It also gives the lie to the impressions that are sometimes given about the health and faithfulness of the umma by some over-zealous propagandists.
"Why do only about 10 percent of U.S. Muslims regularly attend prayer at mosques? How long can the religion's leaders treat women as second-class citizens? When will Muslims respond forcefully to strains of extremism"
10% regularly attend mosque - the 'churchgoing' rate is similar to the UK 'Christian' rate. And I'm interested too in the perceptions of an Islamic insider that women are getting a raw deal from Islam and that there has not been a 'forceful' response to extremism [noting the reports recently of the only known fatwa against Al Qaida, I'd be happy if anyone can come up with others]. Of course it is possible that there is a lower rate of Mosque attandance [I don't know -I don't have comparative figures with, say, Egypt, to hand] in the USA because many Islamic BAckground people there are actually there in order to flee too-restrictive regimes and societies in the Muslim world ... be interesting to know.

Anyway, there is a lot to think about in this provocative report.
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