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By Aqilah Allaudeen <\/strong>
\n Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a Muslim woman donning a Shalwar Kameez, a traditional Indian outfit, walked down the aisle to marry a Christian man wearing a suit.<\/p>\n

The celebration welcomed some 200 people from both the bride\u2019s and groom\u2019s families. It ended with the bride and groom saying \u201cI do,\u201d followed by the signing of their Nikkah certificate, an official Islamic marriage certificate. It was an interfaith wedding.<\/p>\n

Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men under most interpretations of Islamic law, but Ani Zonneveld, the imam who officiated the wedding, said that such marriages are becoming increasingly common and that she believes they should continue to take place. In fact, from her understanding of the Quran, interfaith weddings are not prohibited.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t say anywhere in the Quran that a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man,\u201d she said. \u201cYet, in practice, we as Muslim women were taught and told that we can only marry Muslim men. It\u2019s just hogwash, a total lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Zonneveld, 55, is a Malaysian-American imam in Los Angeles, Calif. And yes, she is a woman.<\/p>\n

The recognition of women as imams in the Muslim community remains a controversial issue, despite the fact that the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, does not say that only men can lead in prayer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt clearly states in the Quran that even Prophet Muhammad allowed women to lead in prayer,\u201d said Zonneveld. \u201cThat\u2019s why I identify as an imam with a small \u2018i\u2019… because I don\u2019t care for the hierarchy. I do it for my community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zonneveld is the founder and president of a progressive Muslim nonprofit organization – called Muslims for Progressive Values, or MPV. The organization advocates for women\u2019s rights, LGBTQ inclusion, and freedom of religion. Since Zonneveld founded MPV\u2019s first chapter in Los Angeles in 2007, it has expanded to 13 countries and 17 cities. Zonneveld decided to start a community of her own after she explored the Quran in both its cultural and historical context and realized the values she took away from it were not aligned with what was being taught in her local mosque.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided there was no way I could go back to the mosque that I was a part of because it was just so patriarchal,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be a part of that because if I did, I would just be perpetuating the same. That\u2019s when I decided that I wanted to form my own community.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Zonneveld was raised by conservative parents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she never planned on making a career out of being an Islamic activist. In fact, she declared that she was a \u201ccloseted Muslim\u201d for a large portion of her life.<\/p>\n

She moved to the U.S. in 1981 to study economics and politics at Northern Illinois University. She planned to take after her diplomat father by moving back to Malaysia to join the foreign service as an ambassador after graduating from college.<\/p>\n

However, upon graduation, she decided to move out of the Midwest to explore the music industry in Los Angeles, where she worked her way up as a songwriter and producer.<\/p>\n

Zonneveld produced a number of pop songs for various Malaysian artists. And a collaboration with Keb\u2019 Mo, an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner, won a Grammy Award in 2001. She won another Grammy Award in 2004 for her contribution to Keb\u2019 Mo\u2019s Keep It Simple album.<\/p>\n

Just as Zonneveld was making her mark in the music industry, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks led to an important tipping point in both her personal and professional life. The attacks made Zonneveld reflect on her faith and what it meant to her personally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 9\/11 happened, I concluded that I needed to decide if I was still going to be a Muslim or not,\u201d she said. \u201cI needed to decipher what my identity was independently.\u201d<\/p>\n

After reading the Quran to understand Islam better, Zonneveld concluded that it was a \u201cliberating book\u201d and that she wanted help people understand what the religion was really about.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden you have 9\/11 and that is the only impression that people had of Muslims,\u201d she said. \u201cSo of course they had a very prejudicial impression of what Islam or being a Muslim is.\u201d<\/p>\n

By this point in her career, Zonneveld was \u201cbasically writing songs in (her) sleep,\u201d for a living. So her decision to write an Islamic pop CD that reflected egalitarian values, the role of women in Islam and the spiritual aspect of it came almost naturally.<\/p>\n

However, trying to get stores to sell her CD posed a challenge to Zonneveld. After producing her CD, she reached out to just about every retailer in the U.S. \u2013 including both Islamic music stores and mainstream music stores online and offline \u2013 but none of the stores were willing to sell it. The stores more focused on Islamic music were unwilling to sell the CD because they disagreed with the progressive values associated with the songs and singer.<\/p>\n

Zonneveld said that the stores refusing to sell her CD was a trigger point for her. It was another indicator that the Islam being practiced by many was not the same progressive faith that she understood from the Quran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really blown away. I thought to hell with this and so I started my own community that isn\u2019t stuck in the seventh century,\u201d she said. \u201cActually it\u2019s not even the seventh century, it\u2019s just a made-up Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yasmin Kadir, Zonneveld\u2019s executive assistant, said that it is Zonneveld\u2019s tenacity and passion to create something new and meaningful for the Muslim community that makes her a successful activist.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer activism comes from a place of truly good human nature rather than an \u2018I\u2019m doing something good so something good comes back to me\u2019 kind of attitude,\u201d Kadir said.<\/p>\n

Maliha Khan, the head of MPV in Washington D.C., said it is clear that Zonneveld is very invested in helping the Muslim community.<\/p>\n

\u201cAni doesn\u2019t work for accolades or fame, but rather, she is willing to work on very long- term projects that will return great investment in terms of their impact on human rights around the world,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n

While Zonneveld admits that her progressive values and take on Islam have led to a strained relationship with her family, she said that she will only stop her activism when \u201cmosques adopt egalitarian values and offer prayer services that accommodate families, trans people and women imams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zonneveld said that she doesn\u2019t see herself as testing the limits of Islam, rather she is fighting for equality that she emphasizes is called for in the Quran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not pushing the Islamic boundaries,\u201d she said. \u201cI am pushing out the patriarchal boundaries that have been infused in Islam. So when that is fixed, we are done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Ani Zonneveld is the founder and president of Muslims for Progressive Values, a progressive Muslim nonprofit organization.(Photo: Ani Zonneveld)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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