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Moslems of Los Angeles drifting away from Islam
Jihad Turk, and if you don't believe a guy with the name Jihad, well then who will you believe director of religious studies at LA's Islamic Center of Southern California, says that of the roughly 750,000 Muslims living in Southern California, just 30,000, or about 4%, regularly attend Friday prayer. And when I interview members of the center's offshoot, the Muslim Establishing Communities of America (MECA), whose target demographic is unaffiliated young adults, they say there are few Muslim institutions where they feel comfortable. Younger Muslims say they don't like the gender segregation at prayers and the imams imported from other countries who repeat the same Friday sermons, known as Khutbahs, week after week. the author of the article generalizes this to all moslems in the US but gives no info about anything but LA Posted by: Lord Garth 2012-03-24 |
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