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		<title>This Muslim-American life: A virtual round table</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No single voice or organization can speak for the colorful, diverse spectrum of Islam in America, so here we give you ten of them. 
(Click here to read bios for each member of the round table below.)
They range from late teens to late 20s, from progressive, cultural Muslims to fully faithful and by-the-book.  Hear what [...]


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		<title>This Muslim-American life: The numbers speak for themselves</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The diverse, young-skewing population of an estimated 1.5 million Muslim-American adults  is &#8220;middle-class and mostly mainstream,&#8221; according to a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center.  (Full report available for download here.)


To read the other stories in this series, visit This Muslim-American life: Young adults&#8217; activist, artistic voices.


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		<title>Punk and pious: Muslim-American rockers&#8217; unconventional Islam</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of Muslim punk rock may seem like a mishmash of cultures.  Profanity-laden lyrics come after the religion&#8217;s traditional greeting, &#8220;Salaam aleikum.&#8221; Melodic Middle Eastern strumming punctuates noisy guitar feedback. Muslims style their purple- and red-dyed hair into mohawks and show off Arabic-scripted tattoos.
But for the second-generation Americans leading this contemporary cultural movement, [...]


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		<title>Preview: Muslim-American voices</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With college behind them, today’s Muslim-Americans tiptoe toward adulthood and find themselves in a position different from their immigrant parents and even those born in the United States decades before them.
This generation, now in their 20s, grew up amid Muslim student organizations, contemporary Islamic teachings and the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks.  They’re [...]


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