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  • New College Teaches Young American Muslims

    09/08/2010 1:48:47 PM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 28 replies
    NPR ^ | 9-8-10 | Barbara Bradley Hagerty
    I don't know what I expected to find when I arrived at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., the country's brand new Muslim liberal arts college. Women in headscarves? Yes, for the most part. Men with heavy beards? No. A lot of prayer and fasting, since it's Ramadan? Absolutely. What I didn't expect was 24-year-old Jamye Ford. "I grew up as an AME, African-American Episcopal, in a very religious Southern family," Ford says in the campus quad. "I went to church every Sunday for hours at a time, I went to Bible study, did all of those things. And from a...