U.S. Muslims Squarely in the Mainstream
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the Cordoba Initiative, writes for the Tampa Bay Times about the integration of U.S. Muslims into American society. Rauf believes that, despite stereotypes about Muslims as violent and fundamentally anti-democratic, “in America, Muslims are creating a new form of Islam. Divisions between Shiite and Sunni that plague their home countries don’t exist among American Muslims. Freedom of expression has seeped into American Muslim mainstream thought.”