sherin khankan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen.ou are 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 a 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 have started a mosque also with female imams, and in munster they have also communities, and also they started a centre for islamic theology, where there in the future they're 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. 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