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Howard Dean Parties with American Muslims
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 14, 2007 12:54pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 01:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Almost every American-Muslim youth has been to the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention in Chicago which takes place on Labor Day weekend. The organization is one of the oldest Muslim groups in the US and its evolution affects the Muslims of this country. At one point in the early 1980's it was a battleground for religious conservatives from Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Over the next few decades it underwent a slow change so that today it is headed by a white-convert woman named Ingrid, has placed numerous African-American Muslims in positions of power, and this year welcomed Howard Dean and Congressman Keith Ellison to its convention in Chicago.
Dean made quite an impression with Muslims at ISNA, and it marks the first time that a major political leader has made outreach to the convention, which usually brings together somewhere between 30-50,000 Muslims from around the country, most of them of voting age.
In a wonderful blog post by a Chicago blogger, the evolution of American Islam - the difference between older Muslims who were largely apathetic towards politics and the young "ISNA Deaniacs" -- is made clearly manifest. |
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