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For nine years Ameena Jandali, 41, of El Cerrito has been going out into the community, mostly to high schools, to educate Americans on the basics of Islam.
After Sept.
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11 her task has become easier in some ways and harder in others.
“We’ve been trying to teach people about Ramadan for years and Mr. Bush did it for us in one month,” said Jandali, who spoke to a group of mostly retired citizens at a Berkeley City Club luncheon last Friday.
The challenge for anyone like Jandali is that many Americans view Muslim women as oppressed and living like second-class citizens.
And the images that people see in the media do little to inform people otherwise.
“Second only to terrorists is the question of women in Islam as one of the most misunderstood aspects of Islam,” said Jandali.
In Jandali’s world, women are not oppressed by men.
They are equals excelling as doctors, engineers and scientists. They have a separate identity and control any mo