Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who teaches journalism at Georgetown University. She has written a book, Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam. She is a regular columnist at the Daily Beast-Newsweek. She lives in Great Falls, Va., where her son is in elementary school. 

She can be reached at asra(a)asranomani.com.

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