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Friday 03 Jul 2015 - 18:05 Makkah mean time-16-9-1436
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Washington, (IINA) - According to a Pew Center study, around four percent of American Muslims are Hispanic, and one in ten U.S.-born Muslims claim Hispanic ethnicity, according to media reports.
Hispanic Muslim converts have been on the rise over for more than 10 years, according to reports. The first wave of Hispanic Muslim converts came in the 1980s and 90's according to an analysis by the Divinity School at the University of Chicago says that largely influenced by African-Americans who were part of the Nation of Islam.
The second wave of converts followed the 9/11 when interest in Islam and Muslims was an all-time high in the U.S., and the third recent wave is due to outreach efforts by Hispanic-Muslim such as Islam in Spanish organizations, a Houston-based website that focuses on translations of Islamic texts. Another website, Latinodawah.org provides a list of U.S. Latino-Muslim groups around the country and also has an extensive list of groups throughout Latin America, providing an opportunity for them to network and reach out to others.
Katherine Ewing, a Columbia university religion professor also agreed that there was an increasing number of Latinos who were converting to Islam.
The two regions of the world, Spain and Africa, have a long history with the Arab world.
Arab Muslims ruled Spain for about 800 years during the Middle Ages and made the Iberian Peninsula one of the most advanced civilizations of its time, according to WLRN news.
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