A New Face for Islam in North America

A New Face for Islam in North America
September 21, 2006
By Stephanie Simon / Times Staff Writer
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Ingrid Mattson had given up God. She had stopped saying her rosaries, stopped taking Communion. She was an atheist, abroad in Paris the summer before her senior year of college. But she could not stop listening to the Koran.
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Putting a Different Face on Islam in America
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By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: September 20, 2006
In a class on Islamic history at the Hartford Seminary some years back, the students were discussing a saying ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad that translates roughly as, “Whenever God wants the destruction of a people, he makes a woman their leader.”
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