Us Latinos Find Solution In Islam

[Rehmat]

Many of the Latina converts say that their belief that women are treated better in Islam was a significant factor in converting. Critics may protest that wearing the veil marks a woman as property, but some Latina converts say they welcome the fact that they are no longer whistled at walking down a street. "People have an innate response that I'm a religious person, and they give [me] more respect," says Jenny Yanez, another Latina Muslim. "You're not judged if you're in fashion or out of fashion."


Other Latina Muslims say they also like the religion's emphasis on fidelity to one's spouse and family.


But for many family members and friends, these conversions come as a surprise - often an unwelcome one. They may know little of Islam other than what they have heard of the Taliban and other extremist groups.


That creates an inaccurate image, insists Leila Ahmed, a professor of women's studies and religion at Harvard University. "It astounds me, the extent to which people think Afghanistan and the Taliban represent women and Islam." What's really going on, she says, is a reshaping of the relationship between women and Islam. "We're in the early stages of a major rethinking of Islam that will open Islam for women. [Muslim scholars] are rereading the core texts of Islam - from the Koran to legal texts - in every possible way."


http://news.ibn.net/newsframe.asp?url=http...11s02-ussc.html

[Shereen]

. Critics may protest that wearing the veil marks a woman as property, but some Latina converts say they welcome the fact that they are no longer whistled at walking down a street. "People have an innate response that I'm a religious person, and they give [me] more respect," says Jenny Yanez, another Latina Muslim. "You're not judged if you're in fashion or out of fashion."

subhan allah

[NaSra]

that was a great article and a big eye opener for me. It shows Islams power in the world and its rapid growth even among a ethnic group that is predomenatly if not all Roman catholics!


Alahu Akbar

[Rehmat]

that was a great article and a big eye opener for me. It shows Islams power in the world and its rapid growth even among a ethnic group that is predomenatly if not all Roman catholics!
Alahu Akbar

Asslam-o-Aliakum


Thousands of Jews - from Rabbi to ordernary person - have also 'reverted' to Islam - but not reported by the mass-media.


http://free.freespeech.org/sultan/jewstestimonies.pdf