SPANISH MUSLIM MISSION GROWS IN MEXICO
Susan Ferriss, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 8/12/02
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/monday/news_d375f432859412c
d00d2.html
San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico --- Every weekday morning, children at
an Islamic school in this city sit cross-legged at low desks and rock in
time as they recite the Quran in Arabic.
The older girls' heads are wrapped in obligatory scarves, and all the
children are required to leave their shoes at the door.
But this isn't Pakistan, Iran or an Arab state.
This Islamic "madrasa" is part of a small but growing community of several
hundred Muslim converts in San Cristobal de las Casas, a Mexican tourist
community in southern Chiapas state better known as the gateway to this
region's modern Maya Indian culture. The new adherents to Islam in Chiapas
are almost all Maya who were once Protestants, a choice that made their
families renegades for several previous decades in many Catholic indigenous
communities.
And curiously, the proselytizers are Spanish converts who arrived in 1995
and hail from the southern province of Granada, the last stronghold of the
Muslim Moors of Spain before their defeat by Christian soldiers in 1492...
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