Islam En Español: In Conversion, a New Identity

January 7, 2011

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/nyregion/09muslims.html?ref=religionandbelief

At the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center in Union City, N.J., there are Spanish-language classes on the Koran and an annual Latino Muslim Day. About 35 percent of the center’s congregation is Hispanic, and there are frequent conversions in which Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Cubans and others recite the Shahadah, a declaration of belief.