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Article: Battling for souls. (mainstream churches struggle to appeal to young black men who are increasingly lured to the Islamic faith)
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- Newsweek
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- October 30, 1995
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As more blacks warm to Islam's emphasis on order, Protestant leaders scramble to make their traditional churches more appealing to young men
I slam is spreading rapidly among black Americans - not so much because of Louis Farrakhan, but because of men like Suetwedien A. Muhammed. Standing amid boarded-up buildings and graffiti in the East Germantown section of Philadelphia last week, the 31-year-old African-American says, "I know this area. I helped mess up this area." As a boy he sang in the Baptist church's choir, but as a teenager he spent a lot of time on neighborhood street comers. In 1975 he converted to Islam; by 1992 he had opened a small storefront mosque ...
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