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Article: What adapted physical education teachers should know about Islam.
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- Palaestra
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Growth of Islam across the world, and especially in the United States (U.S.), has become increasingly evident over the past decade. Islam is not only the second largest practiced religion in the world, but also the fastest growing religion in the world, with over 1. I billion followers (National Council of Churches, 2005). In the U.S. Islam is the fastest growing religion in terms of followers, growing at a rate of over 400% per year (U.S. Information Agency, 1997). Table 1 shows Islam as the fastest growing religion in the U.S.--almost doubling in the last decade (U. S. Census Bureau, 2006).
As the number of individuals in the ...