Women have been first responders and foundational figures in Islam’s resilience

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After all, it was Khadija, a woman that first saw the beauty in Islam when the world opposed it and its first messenger, the Prophet Mohammed. She was the first person to embrace Islam, and help pave a pathway for a new course. A woman first then, when the faith would face its first and formative battles. And a woman first today, when Muslims endured the latest massacre dealt by the War on Terror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1047