![]() ![]() ![]() MartÃnez-Vásquez's Latina/o Y Musulmán: The Construction of Latina/o Identity among Latina/o Muslims in the United States), peruse blogs, and talk to leading Latina/o Muslims like Juan Galvan, Daniel Abdullah Hernandez, Mujahid Fletcher, Isa Parada, and Juan Alvarado to complete my research. When I started learning from Latinx Muslims back in 2012 I was able to cobble together a few articles from scholars such as SpearIt, Patrick Bowen, and Hisham Aidi, read a single monograph (Hjamil A. They are Latinx Muslims, one of the fastest growing religious communities in the U.S. ![]() They are from Puerto Rico and Mexico, Argentina and Ecuador, San Franciso and San Salvador, New York, Newark, Miami, and Houston. There are former Pentecostals and Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses and agnostics, atheists and Mormons they've all converted to Islam. Or there is the Marine who took the shahadah while stationed in Japan. Then there's the story of the guy who met the woman of his dreams, moved to Kenya to pursue her, and converted in order to become her husband. There is the mother who converted when she saw her son transition from a life of drugs and crime to one of prayer and faithful religious practice. ![]()
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