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| | AlterNet: White Muslim |
 | | Like a growing number of white Americans and Europeans, he has discovered that Islam is not just the religion of those "other" people. |
 | | Dressed as he is in an Islamic-style tunic and a white kufi, or cap, with an untrimmed ginger beard sprouting from his handsome, classically Californian face, Vincent may look unusual, but he certainly isn't alienated, or for that matter, alone. |
 | | El-Ashry estimates that he has converted about 20 white Americans to Islam, though he believes that you don't "convert" to Islam, you "revert" to it, since we are all Muslim at birth – to become Muslim is simply to return to one's natural state. |
| www.alternet.org /story/20681 (4487 words) |
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