By Patrick D. BowenJournal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion:Volume 1, Issue 11 (September 2010) Introduction: LADO and the Growth of the U.S. Latina/o Muslim Community Latina/os have been slowly and quietly converting to Islamic communities in the U.S. since at least the 1920s. Many conversions came through contact with African-American-majority Muslim movements such as Moorish […]

By Patrick D. BowenThe Muslim WorldVol. 100 no. 4 (2010), pp. 390-413. Introduction While the literature concerning Latina/o Muslims in the United States has been growing, much about them still has yet to be explored, including the history of those who converted through joining African-American-majority Islamic groups prior to 1975 (the year of the formation […]

By Jason MaUSC Annenberg School of JournalismMarch 2010 With last month’s premiere of El Clon — a Telemundo soap opera about a Muslim girl caught in a love triangle with a man and his genetically engineered clone — viewers curious about Islam will find a growing number of Latino Muslims at whom to direct their […]

By Hjamil A. Martínez-VázquezPickwick PublicationsJanuary 1, 2010, 160 pages Book Description: Latinas/os are the fastest growing “minoritized” ethnic group in the United States and Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the U.S. It is therefore no surprise that the Latina/o Muslim population is one of the fastest growing communities in the U.S. […]

By Alex AlvarezGuanabeeSeptember 18, 2009 (Forgive our pun. Please.) We often discuss religion and Latinos on this site in terms of crippling Catholic and Jewish guilt, and sometimes touch upon the rise in Latino Evangelical Christians, but rarely do we mention the other People of the Book. Since we’re currently in the midst of Ramadan, […]

By Mike TolsonHouston ChronicleJanuary 18, 2009 Mostaffa Mohammed had a good life, or as good as you could expect in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. A chemical engineer by training, he made a respectable income from an electrical tool business and never had to worry about a roof over his head or food on the table. […]

By Maria LaMagnaThe Daily NorthwesternOctober 27, 2009 For students of both Hispanic heritage and Muslim faith, an event Tuesday unified the two worlds as several women filed into McCormick Tribune Center’s auditorium wearing traditional Muslim hijab while others chatted in Spanish and embraced. The students were scattered around the auditorium to view “New Muslim Cool,” […]

By Spence KimballThe MonitorAugust 08, 2009 McAllen-Islam came to Dante Peña late in life. Peña grew up in a Catholic home under the influence of his deeply religious mother. His Catholic faith played such a central role in his life that he decided to become a priest. But Peña felt unfulfilled after he completed his […]

By Benjamin PeimNYU JournalismMarch 22, 2009 There are about 200,000 Latino Muslims in the country, and that number may be growing. When Milagros Ali immigrated to the U.S. from her native Peru in 2002, she never would have thought that six years later she’d be a Muslim. “I never thought I’d convert,” she said while […]

By Julia CosansLaVozLatinaApril 28, 2009 Over winter break, senior Sana Javed attended a Friday prayer at a mosque in El Paso, Texas. The presence of the number of Latinos praying in the same mosque surprised Javed. Javed, a member of the Muslim Student Association, said the misrepresentation and oppression of both the Muslim and Latino […]