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Some of you may have heard about the Afghan who converted to Christianity, returned to Afghanistan, and is now being brought up on apostasy charges, punishable by death. So far Karzai has said he'll stay out of it, which is too bad because Afghanistan's judiciary is run by conservative Islamists and have been given a stunning amount of power under the Afghan constitution.

With this in mind, when I saw an article on SF Gate (Today's True Feminists, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/03/22/cstillwell.DTL) about Muslim women fighting for religious moderation, I found myself noting down the many books listed and thought I'd share the link.