{"id":318,"date":"2006-10-09T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T00:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T00:55:12","slug":"islam-gaining-popularity-with-latinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/islam-gaining-popularity-with-latinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam gaining popularity with Latinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorists coming in from Mexico? Naww&#8230;it could never happen.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\/SpecialReports\/archive\/200608\/SPE20060821a.html\">Right?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Al Qaeda Gonzalez?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latinos embrace Islam<\/strong><br \/>\nIslam gaining popularity with Latinos<br \/>\nBy Mark Petix, <a href=\"www.dailybulletin.com\">Staff Writer<\/a><br \/>\nArticle Launched:10\/09\/2006 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHINO &#8211; When the sun finally sets and the fast of Ramadan ends for the day, Luqman Malik joins the faithful at the Baitul Hameed Mosque for a feast of chicken, rice, potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>And Mexican food.<\/p>\n<p>Islam is a tapestry, says Imam Shamshad A. Nasir, a religion that attracts men and women of many cultures.<\/p>\n<p>More Latinos are embracing the faith, said Hussam Ayloush, a Corona man who is spokesman for the Southern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. While he has has no exact numbers, he said the shift is clear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go to the mosque in downtown L.A. and you&#8217;ll see a large number of Latinos,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People are seeking a place where they feel the spirit of peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said they are willing to make sacrifices to find that peace.<\/p>\n<p>That includes Latinos like Malik, a Catholic by birth who found solace in Islam in the days after Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>He was in college, and didn&#8217;t like the way his Muslim friends were being treated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were saying they were not good people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It made him want to learn more about Islam, and he found himself drawn to its teachings and traditions. After much study and thought, the 26-year-old Chino man decided to convert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybulletin.com\/news\/ci_4462361\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorists coming in from Mexico? Naww&#8230;it could never happen. Right? Al Qaeda Gonzalez? Latinos embrace Islam Islam gaining popularity with Latinos By Mark Petix, Staff Writer Article Launched:10\/09\/2006 CHINO &#8211; When the sun finally sets and the fast of Ramadan ends for the day, Luqman Malik joins the faithful at the Baitul Hameed Mosque for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}