Film website: http://www.themosqueinmorgantown.com/

With its red-and-gold fall colors and ducks swimming
in the river, Morgantown seems an unlikely battleground for the soul
of Islam in America. But that's what happens when journalist Asra
Nomani walks up to the door of a nondescript mosque in the West
Virginia university town. Her demand that women be allowed to pray
with the men, instead of being relegated to the backroom, ignites a
national controversy. THE MOSQUE IN MORGANTOWN goes behind the sensational rebel-in-the-mosque headlines to present a nuanced, complex portrait of the real tensions in a community that since 9/11 finds itself under a harsh spotlight. Instead of becoming a bio-pic about Nomani's own personal jihad, what emerges is a remarkably intimate portrait of a community in turmoil. But the issue is larger than women in mosques. Nomani sees it as the struggle for Muslims to live in the 21st century while being defined by the seventh century. It's also about the profoundly lonely struggle of taking on one's own community.