{"id":18061,"date":"2010-02-22T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap-us_muslims_debate_english_or_arabic_worship\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:52:35","slug":"ap-us_muslims_debate_english_or_arabic_worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18061","title":{"rendered":"AP&#8211;US Muslims debate English or Arabic worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sana Rahim was born in the cowboy country of southeastern Wyoming, to Pakistani parents who had emigrated so her father could earn a doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>She speaks Urdu with her family, but can&#8217;t read or write the language. She recites prayers in Arabic, but doesn&#8217;t know exactly what each word means.<\/p>\n<p>Now a 20-year-old junior at Northwestern University, she, like many other American-born Muslims, is most comfortable with sermons and lectures in English, although they can&#8217;t always find U.S. mosques that offer them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really get the time to study Arabic,&#8221; Rahim said. &#8220;With all the different groups in America, English is a unifying thing that ties us together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-02-22-mosques21_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sana Rahim was born in the cowboy country of southeastern Wyoming, to Pakistani parents who had emigrated so her father could earn a doctorate. She speaks Urdu with her family, but can&#8217;t read or write the language. She recites prayers<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18061\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,42,426,183,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}