In today’s rundown: Gender relations and the prayer hall. Boobquake 2010. And local students join job hunters.
— A group of local Muslim activists gathered over the weekend for a town hall meeting on gender relations. At the Islamic Center in Washington they debated whether women and men should worship in the same prayer hall. Click here to listen to their opinions.
— A local blogger is encouraging women to dress in their most “immodest outfits” and gather in Dupont Circle at Noon today to protest a Shiite cleric’s claim that women who do not dress modestly cause — among other things — earthquakes. The gathering is being called “Boobquake.”
— As the school year winds down, Washington, D.C. students are hunting for summer jobs; but it’s estimated that at least half of D.C. kids are unemployed. Click here to find out how the city is helping some kids out.