The Quiet Heretic

A controversial prayer upends a professor's life

Amina Wadud is awesome. Amina Wadud is a crazy woman who has never read the Koran. She is a courageous rebel, a role model, a pioneer. She is an embarrassment to the Muslim world, a heretic, and a blasphemer. She deserves our support. She should be diced to pieces.

The praise and the venom poured in from around the world, all of it directed at an associate professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University who, on a

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