Press Mentions

Altmuslimah’s Asma Uddin spoke about the Altmuslimah mission at Johns Hopkins University.

This interview is part of the Young Muslim American Voices Project, a CAP project launched late last year that seeks to strengthen the voices and visibility of young Muslim-American leaders.

This “spotlight” may also explain the success of these sites and organisations which, Asma Uddin of Altmuslimah insists, are taking issues that were previously restricted to academic circles and the masses and Muslim women are dealing with them in their daily lives.

On June 7, 2010, Asma Uddin addressed the 2010 fellows of the Muslim Public Service Network (MPSN)

Altmuslimah’s Asma Uddin participated in the Hate Speech and Religion panel at Cardozo Law School’s Hate Speech Symposium.

On May 11, 2010, Altmuslimah’s Asma Uddin led a roundtable at The Buxton Initiative on Gender and Modesty, joined by Eleanor Barkhorn of The Atlantic.

Altmuslimah’s Sarah Jawaid discussed modesty and the burqa ban on NPR. Though the burqa and niqab have made news in recent months, Islam is only one of many religions that connect modesty to faith with specific garments. Many Mormons, Amish, Orthodox Jews and Christians promote modest appearance, among men and women, to various degrees.

Altmuslimah’s Asma Uddin led a discussion on gender-in-Islam in conjunction with the screening of The Mosque in Morgantown.

Altmuslimah’s Asma Uddin addressed Muslim’s women’s right to religious freedom at St. Thomas University’s Symposium on Islamic Law and Constitutional Liberties