{"id":58072,"date":"2017-03-17T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58072"},"modified":"2017-03-17T05:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:25:32","slug":"npr-with-both-communities-concerned-latino-muslims-learn-about-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58072","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) With Both Communities Concerned, Latino Muslims Learn About Their Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group goes by the name La Asociaci\u00f3n Latino Musulmana de Am\u00e9rica and supports a growing number of Hispanic converts to Islam in Southern California. This gathering reflects the merging of cultures in a part of the country where neighbors are often from different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Like many Latinas, Guadalupe Fernandez grew up Catholic. Then around a decade ago, she moved from Mexico to the U.S. and met a guy in English class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the beginning, we were just friends because I was afraid of the fact that he was Muslim,&#8221; she says, as translated from Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>But the pair began to date and Fernandez became more interested in her partner Hamada Abdallah&#8217;s religion. Eventually, she converted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/03\/16\/520388438\/with-both-communities-concerned-latino-muslims-learn-about-their-rights\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group goes by the name La Asociaci\u00f3n Latino Musulmana de Am\u00e9rica and supports a growing number of Hispanic converts to Islam in Southern California. This gathering reflects the merging of cultures in a part of the country where neighbors<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58072\">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":[426,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58072","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=58072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58074,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58072\/revisions\/58074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}