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Islam In America
Islam is as American as a Rodeo
By
Suzy Shuraym
As The New York Times noted on Sunday (8 February 2015): “there is an inconvenient footnote to the assertion that Islam is anti-American: Muslims arrived here before the founding of the United States — not just a few, but thousands.” Read more here.
“Our American Heritage”: 49th Annual ISNA Convention
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Suzy Shuraym
Altaf Husain started the session on “Our American Heritage” during the 49th annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America with a challenge. “Who are we as a community,” he asked the audience on Sunday [2 September 2012]. “What does it mean to be an American Muslim?” A resident of Cleveland, Ohio, his specialty…
Muslims Among African Slaves
By
Suzy Shuraym
The shipments of human cargo in the mid-16th century (via the efforts of Sir John Hawkins) disembarked on Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico rather than on the North American mainland. The first black slaves to arrive in what is now the United States were 20 Negroes sold from a Dutch man-of-war to the settlers…
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