21 posts tagged “muslims”
Univision Visits IEC
The Islamic Educational Center of North Hudson (IECNH) hosted nationally syndicated Hispanic television station Univision [channel 41 in the NYC metro area] on Thursday February 23rd 2006 at its center in Union City, NJ.
Many of the latinos converted into islam after 9/11, because they wanted to meet the people who did this they went to where they pray (mosques, and that when they go there thay found them selves drawn to islam...
and the muslim lady said that she always felt that a part of her was missing, until she converted to islam...
Hispanics leaving the Catholic Church and converting to Islam. They call it an "exodus." They also mention that the number of hispanics Muslims from a Catholic background is growing rapidly. Some of the reasons for their coversion, the people who are interview say, are the respect towards women, the oneness of God, and the similarity between the Hispanic and the Muslim societies (
TV Report:
They were talking about many Latinos are leaving the catholic religion and are turning to Islam. They talked about the reasons why they turned to Islam such as corruption in Church or unanswerd questions..but they found true answers in islam.
Priest also talked about the building bridge between them which he support and he also said they have respected who convert from catholic to islamic faith ..
Islam spreads very fast between Latinos in north and south America..
The number of Hispanic Americans converting to Islam is growing rapidly -- particularly in New York, California, Texas and Florida, which have the greatest concentration of Hispanic residents. Muslim leaders say interest in Islam has increased in the past few years, and they also note that Muslims and Hispanics, many of whom are immigrants, share a number of common concerns. Steve Mort reports from a mosque in Florida that has seen a steady increase in Latino worshippers.
Jesus, a Puerto Rican living in Florida, converted to Islam only a year ago. He is one of tens of thousands of Hispanic Muslims in the United States: estimates range from around 70,000 to 200,000.
Muslims in Ukraine make up about 1.7% of the total population.
The Muslims in Slovenia are ethnically Bosnians and Albanians. The Muslims constitute 1.81% of Slovenian population. The Islamic Centre of Ljubljana is headed by Nevzet Porić, general secretary of the Muslim community of Slovenia. Porić said 90 percent of the Muslim in Slovenia are Bosnjak (Bosnian), 8 percent Albanian and 2 percent come from other ethnic branches of the large Slav family of the Balkans.
Most of the Muslims in Slovakia are refugees from former Yugoslavia (Bosnians and Albanians) or workers from modern Turkey (Turks and Kurds), beside them a few Arab students. Most of the Muslims live in the capital Bratislava, smaller communities also exist in Košice and Martin
The Muslims in Serbia are mostly ethnic Bosniaks and Albanians, but also members of the smaller ethnic groups like Muslims by nationality, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, Turks, etc.
According to the 2002 census, there are 239,658 Muslims in Serbia (including Central Serbia and Vojvodina). Since the census was not conducted in Kosovo, the actual number of Muslims in Serbia (including Kosovo) is cca. 2,000,000. Most of the Slavic Muslims (Bosniaks and Muslims by nationality) are concentrated in the region of Sandžak. The Albanian Muslims live mostly in Kosovo, but also in Central Serbia's municipalities of Preševo (Albanian: Preshevë), and Bujanovac (Albanian: Bujanoc), as well as in the part of the municipality of Medveđa. Gorani, Muslim Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, and Turks live mostly in Kosovo. Most of the few thousand Arabs who live in Serbia are followers of Islam. The Arabs mostly living in Belgrade.
Across Russia, Islam is thriving. Experts say the country is undergoing a change and that if current trends continue, nearly one third of Russia's population will be Muslim by the mid-century. There are also millions of Muslims from Caucasus and Central Asia that have settled in Russia. Since 1989, Russia's Muslim population has increased to about 25 million. There has been a growing interest in Islam amongst ethnic Russians as there appears to be a rising number of converts to the faith. More recently, author and ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, embraced Islam before passing away from radiation poisoning.
Kazan has a large Muslim population and is home to the Russian Islam University at Tatarstan. Education is in Russian and Tatar.
Russian Muslims and the Hajj
A record 18,000 Russian Muslim pilgrims from all over the country attended the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2006.[
The first noticeable presence of Islam in Poland began in the 14th century. From this time it was primarily associated with the Tatars, many of whom settled in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth while continuing their traditions and religious beliefs. The first significant non-Tatar groups of Muslims arrived in Poland in the 1970's.
Apart from the traditional Tatar communities, since the 1970s Poland has also been home to a small but growing immigrant Muslim community.
In the 1970s and 1980s Poland attracted a number of students from many socialist-aligned Arabic-speaking states of the Middle East and Africa. Many of them decided to stay in Poland. In the late 1980s this community became more active and better organized. They have built mosques and praying houses in Warsaw, Białystok, Gdańsk (built by the Tatar community), Wrocław, Lublin and Poznań. There are also praying rooms in Bydgoszcz, Kraków, Łódź, Olsztyn and Opole[5].
Since the overthrow of Communism in 1989, other Muslim immigrants have come to Poland. A relatively prominent group are Turks and Muslims from former Yugoslavia. There are also smaller groups of immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and from other countries. Several thousand ethnic Poles have also converted to Islam. Over seven thousand of them have taken shahada online on the Polish Islamic Association website [1].
The exact number of Muslims living is Poland remains unknown as the last all-national census held by the Central Statistical Office in 2002 did not ask for religion. 500 people declared Tatar (rather than Polish) nationality. Typical estimates place the number of all Tatars in Poland at somewhere around 3,000 -5,000, the number of all Muslims around 30,000.
Islam is the largest minority religion in Norway with over 2% of the population. In 2006, government statistics registered 72,023 members of Islamic congregations in Norway.. 56% lived in the counties of Oslo and Akershus. Scholarly estimates from 2005 regarding the number of people of Islamic background in Norway vary between 120,000 and 150,000. The vast majority have an immigrant background. The Islamic community in Norway is highly diverse, but many mosques are organised in the umbrella organisation Islamic Council Norway (Islamsk Råd Norge).
