By Uzra ZeyaThe Washington ReportJanuary 1990 One of the more interesting aspects of the Islamic faith has been its continued ability to attract new adherents. Such a tradition is rooted in the history of the religion, and facilitated its rapid spread from Arabia to the far reaches of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Here in the […]
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Mas Islam, Por favor
By Rafael NarbaezLiving Islam TodayWinter 1421/2000 At least once a month, maybe more, someone will call and ask me if I have any Spanish language Qur’ans or if I can send them some books on Islam in the Spanish language. The demand for Spanish language materials has become greater with every passing year. The tragedy […]
Los Musulmanes, the Spanish Ummah of the Muslim World
By Nicole Ballivan2000 Never have humans attempted to eliminate a race of people as in the Spanish Inquisition. One wonders why the silence has remained so steadfastly smothering for a people who brought glory and art to Europe for over nine centuries. When the students of the West open their history books and read the […]
Small wave of Latinos feel draw of Islam
James W. Blair Jr.The Christian Science MonitorAugust 19, 1999 LOS ANGELES On a Sunday afternoon, while millions in Los Angeles celebrated Easter, Elizabeth Chawki and her brother, Benny Garcia, sat in a quiet back room at the ILM Foundation, a small storefront Islamic center, to speak of what had brought them from traditional Christianity to […]
New Islamic Movement Seeks Latino Converts
By Margaret RamirezThe Los Angeles TimesMarch 15, 1999 Slipped inside a strip mall across from Exposition Park where the smell of incense mingles with Arabic swirls on the wall, Muhammad Gomez absorbs the message of Allah. Sitting beside him in this storefront Islamic center, Domy Garcia raises her hand and asks why she and other […]
Olé to Allah: New York’s Latino Muslims
By Hisham AidiAfricana.comNovember 11, 1999 On a recent crisp Friday afternoon in El Barrio, the Puerto Rican heart of East Harlem, Ramon Omar Abduraheem Ocasio, Imam of the Alianza Islamica, delivered a khutba (sermon) in Spanish, English and Arabic on fatherhood and responsibility to a motley congregation of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Panamanians, Spaniards, and African […]
Hispanic Women Swap Culture And Religion, Convert To Islam
By Nevine MabroColumbia News Service2000 NEW YORK — Mariam Ramon has swapped her short skirts, visits to the beauty parlor and Roman Catholicism for baggy pants, a head scarf and Islam. Ramon, 52, a Puerto-Rican American, became a Muslim ten years ago. Her curiosity about the religion was aroused by an Islamic prayer ritual by […]
Mexico Discovers Islam
A new generation of Muslims is introducing Islam to Mexicans.By Michelle Al-Nasr Mexico may be well on its way to a monotheistic revolution. This new trend is emerging from recent developments, and reflects a similar change evident in other South American nations – people are embracing Islam by the thousands, jettisoning the Catholicism imposed upon […]
Islam Under Wraps
By Jamal ArifIviewsJune 11, 1999 The mere mention of South America can conjure up visions of tall spires and stately steeples bedecking the enchanting and somewhat mysterious landscape of the continent. A common bond of Catholicism runs through the skein of South American countries that have emerged over the last century. It is no wonder […]
MUSLIMS IN THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS
byDr. Youssef Mroueh Introduction Numerous evidence suggests that Muslims from Spain and West Africa arrived in the Americas at least five centuries before Co1umbus. It is recorded, for example that in the mid-tenth century during the rule of the Umayed Caliph Abdul-Rahman III (929-961), Muslims of African origin sailed westward from the Spanish port of Delba […]