Then we would line up—boys in front, girls behind. At the Mosque we attended, men enter from the main doors, while women enter through a rear entrance just off the kitchen, near the dumpsters. The issue with the gender segregation in Mosques has been highlighted by Muslim reformers like Asra Nomani. She wrote an article in the Washington Post on how she once entered a Mosque through the main doors with her father. She and her father were both harassed until she left the area and joined the women in the basement where she belonged.
