It was fifteen years ago. Through the dust and death that filled New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, one inspirational image emerged. Scores of firefighters and policemen raced into the danger. Their selfless courage prompted them to overcome every instinct that would compel a normal person to turn and run the other way. While…
I’ve always been intrigued by how different people can see the same thing, and yet arrive at different conclusions. It’s like the old adage, “Is the glass half full or half empty?” Christians around the world are faced with a similar challenge today. The world is like a fruit basket turned over. For many centuries now,…
Earlier this month I was in Foz do Iguaçu an amazing city on the border of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. Every morning I would walk across a bridge on the Parana River to speak for four hours to a gathering of young Paraguayan missionaries preparing for missionary service among Muslims. In the evenings I would…
“written for the UK’s Premier Christianity magazine, June 2016”. An unprecedented number of Muslims are becoming Christians. David Garrison, who has spent years researching the phenomenon, shares his findings. Ten-year-old Nadia wasn’t surprised when her father signed her marriage contract, nor when she had to move in with her 20-year-old husband two years later. Nadia’s…
When Islam spread rapidly after the death of Mohammed it spread both west and east. Today, the Islamic world spreads like a belt from West Africa all the way to Southeast Asia. These bookends of the Muslim world, however, do not view their constituents as fringe Muslims. Timbuktu, Mali in West Africa, analogous to many…
Two of the most volatile countries in the world over the last few decades, largely attributed to strict Islamic regimes, have been Iran and Afghanistan. Instable countries cause emigration which, in this case, has led to significant Afghan and Persian communities in Metro New York. Other Central Asian Muslim groups have been on the rise…
The history of Europe and Islam is long and fraught with war. If not for technologically advanced weaponry that helped Charles Martel stave off the advance of the Moors into 8th century France, Western Europe could have been swallowed into the Umayyad Muslim caliphate. Many centuries later, the Moors were pushed out from Spain and…
For an introduction to Arabs in Metro New York, including more detailed info on Egyptians, Palestinians, and Yemenis, see our last blog. Moroccan Unlike other Arab immigrant populations mentioned in this blog (Yemenis excluded), Moroccans do not have a significant Christian population. Besides a small Moroccan Jewish population in Metro New York, almost all Moroccan…
Arabs have a history in Metro New York that dates back to the late 19th century. Syrians arrived in lower Manhattan with few skills and spread out from New York throughout the country peddling sewing supplies and small tools. Arab-run textile factories abounded in places such as Paterson (known as Silk City) and West Hoboken,…
The days of New York cabbies with strong New York accents are gone. These days, Mohammed is New York’s most common cabbie name, and up to half of all New York cabbies come from South Asia. Bangladeshis Reflective of their surging population over the last two decades, Bangladeshis have the highest percentage of taxi drivers…
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