Islam in Hawai'i
by Aziz Poonwalla
Tuesday April 21, 2009
I am attending the ISMRM conference in Honolulu this week, which is why I've been understandably distracted these past few days :) I was rather curious about the muslim presence here in paradise, and it turns out that Hawai'i has a very vibrant muslim community. In hindsight this should have been obvious, given that Hawai'i is culturally and georaphically as connected to Southeast Asia as it is to the mainland United States. Due to its crossroads status, there is a tremendous diversity here, even more so than muslim communities in large cities on the mainland, because of the infusion of culture from east as west. In fact, this diversity has actually been a source of conflict, a microcosm of the cultural and religious dfferences of the global Ummah itself...Sila Ke Islamerica
by Aziz Poonwalla
Tuesday April 21, 2009
I am attending the ISMRM conference in Honolulu this week, which is why I've been understandably distracted these past few days :) I was rather curious about the muslim presence here in paradise, and it turns out that Hawai'i has a very vibrant muslim community. In hindsight this should have been obvious, given that Hawai'i is culturally and georaphically as connected to Southeast Asia as it is to the mainland United States. Due to its crossroads status, there is a tremendous diversity here, even more so than muslim communities in large cities on the mainland, because of the infusion of culture from east as west. In fact, this diversity has actually been a source of conflict, a microcosm of the cultural and religious dfferences of the global Ummah itself...Sila Ke Islamerica
Source: Beliefnet.com
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