sherin khankan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. one of europe's very few female imams, but you're also a writer, a social activist. what do you see as your most important role? actually, i'm not one of few. there are actually quite a lot of female imams around the world, also in europe, so it's a myth that female imams is a totally new phenomenon. well, how many? we've had female imams in china since 1820, in the us, in canada, in germany, they have a very large community for female imams. halima krausen in hamburg, rabeya muller in cologne, and in berlin, they've started a mosque also with female imams, and in munster, they have also communities, and also they started a centre for islamic theology, where they're, in the future, are about to educate a generation of female imams. in switzerland as well. in somalia, they also have... i take the point, there are some. yes. but within the scope of this vast community of worldwide muslims, it is still an extraordinarily unusual thing to be. but i just wonder whether for you it is the re