The recently founded, female-led Maryam mosque in Copenhagen has attracted considerable interest from a number of Western liberal publications.

In this feature by the BBC World Service, the mosque’s initiators are presented and offer their vision of a liberal, feminist Islam. The founders explicitly claim that their initiative is meant to counter an alleged ‘Islamophobia’ among Western populations increasingly sceptical of mass immigration. Native populations are supposedly mistaken about the true nature of a religion falsely associated with violence, women’s oppression and resistance to integration. Misconceptions to which the founders seek to offer a counter-narrative.