Islam: The Next American Religion? From: The Arab American News | Date: June 15, 2001| Author: | Copyright Araba American News Jun 15, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ISLAM: THE NEXT AMERICAN RELIGION?

BY MICHAEL WOLFE

The U.S. began as a haven for Christian outcasts. But what religion fits our current zeitgeist? The answer may be Islam.

Americans tend to think of their country as, at the very least, a nominally Christian nation. Didn't the Pilgrims come here for freedom to practice their Christian religion? Don't Christian values of righteousness under God, and freedom, reinforce America's democratic, capitalist ideals?

True enough. But there's a new religion on the block now, one that fits the current zeitgeist nicely. It's Islam.

Islam is the ...

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