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PBS ' Religion and Ethics Newsweekly–Latino Converts to Islam
We visit the Islamic Center of Greater Miami to look at the rising number of Latino Muslims in the US””as many as 250,000, according to estimates. Some of the converts say that in Islam they have found theological simplicity and “no intermediaries with God.” The Islamic Circle of North America reports that more than half of the US Latino converts are women. “I just felt that the minute I put my head down to the ground,” says Nadia Echevrria, “I felt like I was really talking to God.”
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