Author: Lisa Bauer
Lisa Bauer is currently a graduate student and an aspiring writer. She is attempting to pick up the pieces of her life after her traumatic experience without the help or hindrance of any kind of religion.
Subjection and Escape; An American woman’s Muslim journey, part 3
In the third and final part of this series, Lisa Bauer explains how the combination of her devotion to Islam and certain characteristics of her personality almost destroyed her. —Eds. Countless commentators have offered general reasons for objecting to Islam—it’s misogynistic, medieval, theocratic, and so on. I agree, and one can read innumerable critiques along …
Subjection and Escape: An American woman’s Muslim journey, part 2
The alarm clock awakens me with its annoying buzz. Half-consciously, I smash down the snooze button. I peep out at the time: 5:32 A.M. I really must get up and shower. Then I can do my wudu’ (ritual ablutions) and pray before the time for fajr (the dawn prayer) expires at sunrise, which according to …
Subjection and Escape; An American Woman’s Muslim Journey (Part 1)
On Monday, the eleventh of February, 2002, I apprehensively stepped through the doors of the local mosque to recite the profession of faith that would make me a Muslim. I was a ver y shy, naïve, young American woman with absolutely no direct personal experience of Islam, and I had no idea about what to …