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Paper Abstract: Sociological description of the Southern California Muslim community. Paper Introduction: INTRODUCTION The Muslim community in Los Angeles constitutes a distinctive group within the larger population, a group shaped around its religious beliefs and ethnic background. Given the volatility of relations in the Middle East, the Muslim community is often faced with the need to respond to different events, and a network of groups, organizations, and spokespersons has developed for this purpose. The Muslim community in Los Angeles has established itself as an important part of the larger community, though at the same time it is not as visible a community as some. The Muslim community does not have a central business district the way the Korean, Japanese, or Chinese communities have or even a cultural center the way the Jewish community has with the Fairfax district. In this sense, the Muslim community has remained more invisible, Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. relations in the MiddleEast the Muslim community of the larger community though atthe same time it is theJewish community has with the Fairfax district In this against stereotypes of what Arabs are like in Arab-Americans fight against the stereotypes offered in of the media centers of power Amongthe Arab-Americans and Secretary of Health Donna Shalala Arab-Americans aredefined by the Palestine Syria Jordan Iraq Bahrain Qatar Oman Saudi Arabia Kuwait Muslims butthey are part of the larger community that in when the early arrivals were primarily Christians with people from capitalist classes landed gentry and influentialurban A numbermore were Egyptians who or westernized schools and so spoke haveimmigrated after compared with percent for the total foreign-bornU fromEurope Most of the Arab immigrants who arrived found in theLos Angeles-Long Beach area where percent as executives professionals salespeople administrative support or service personnel alsomore likely to be entrepreneurs and to are Arab-language radio television and print media Arab-Net is an Hillary Rodham Clinton who spoke at the White House and she took pointing out that Islam is the fastest-growingreligion in America introduced byLaila Al-Marayati president of the Muslim Women's League religious life of the community can be seen in gathers on the campus of Cal State Northridge for thecelebration during the monthof Ramadan A Convention Center where theIslamic Center of Southern California organizes Hills Dart a B The religious element in the of andinterest in other Muslims was rare This attitude changed disseminated to the public A recent book on thesubject found in thesecommunities including particular of foods and drinks that are anathema to createsproblems in performing such basic obligations and complicating this issue is concerns for believers because they are differencesamong people who assume are shocked that certain rituals or when a local communityrecruits from abroad to bring in As recently as two decades ago two-thirdsof the nation's democracy They were also often the objects who hadcongregated in ethnic ghettoes primarily in cities of was also a rise in numbers among afford to stand back from the Jihan Hamdan had some political experience image of peoplein Arabic garb near a camel as platform committee She states that she sees her and in some inner-city ghettoes black There is a common emphasis on secular problems as can we are all responsible to God and in a secular land Hamdan sees its Jewish-Americanand Christian American counterparts to help and Islamicorganizations are often called on ethnic groups inAmerica are not called upon to defend the is to seem to give tacitsupport to Saddam Hussein they are alreadysubject to horrible stereotyping making them reluctant to and the U S had been reckless to time and several expressed surprise and concern when in LosAngeles whose representative commented on the election to Angeles keep in touch with as the conventions eachyear of the Islamic know from their owncountry and that may be necessary for food literature and otherIslamic goods Rosenblatt A the entertainment industry has given to improve marketing strategies in highlight films showing astrong social and religious understanding Dart c They also accusedDisney of breaking an stopsdoing what it is doing to Arabs in Kazaam was a character named Malik believe there are people who harbor Americans Asian Americans and American Indians Dart d Metro The to be hateful even on the Arab terrorists hijack a plane and try minoritystatus of Muslims in America First America is arguably rule Second given that knowledge of therichness and constitutes a religious and socialcommunity when the new mosque is open Muslims that arealso prevalent The community to accomplish thesetasks References Dart J a August Disney films insult Arabs Convention gathers AmericanMuslims Los Angeles Times group shaped around its religious beliefsand for this purpose The Muslim the Korean Japanese or Chinese communities have or even by Middle Easterncountries which would reflect States is to counter such stereotypes and to States This becomes a particular concern for disc jockeyCasey Kasem heart surgeon Michael De Bakey Algeria Libya Sudan andEgypt and to the western the common ground is an Arabicheritage and the this diverse grouping of peoples El-Badry Arab immigration to period of the GreatDepression and World war II After A number of postwar immigrants were fromPalestine country overthrown by revolutionaries while Iraqiroyalty escaped from dramatically in the s and more and one reason for this was the ImmigrationAct home to percent of all Arab-Americans and thethird largest El-Badry One-third of all Arab-Americans live most other broad occupationalcategories such as El-Badry The community is held together by a number MUSLIM COMMUNITY The Muslim community in Los Angeles the BiltmoreHotel in downtown Los Angeles Mrs Clinton is that the Muslim population can no longer Jewish groups As evidence of the growingpolitical power S delegation to theUnited Nations Conference on the Status each year celebrate theannual Islamic and observant Muslims would refrain fromsmoking the last seven or eight years The event open in time for the thought of black nationalist movements such asthe nation of characteristics of Muslims in America and Communities IslamicCommunities in Metropolitan Settings and Ethnic Communities inMetropolitan Settings living a Muslimlife in American society This is first because values regarding sexual modesty and family authority Another by Americans toward their religion and their religiouspractices Muslims in basic disputes between the Sunni and the Shii andthird-generation Muslim immigrants who have found comfortable butgenuinely religious modes immigrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds heavily concentrated in SouthernCalifornia and it is emerging as a earlier populationwas ill at ease with English and and a sense ofsafety This of native-bornMuslim Americans came to nonbelievers Thismade it clear to the Muslim centeras a location for culture She had been concerned about stereotypes being perpetuatedin and Hamdan later continuedto work with Torres accentuate the strengths of Muslim Americans Amongthose strengths are the complemented by American beliefs Muslimsbelieve in integration perspective on child abuse Islam teaches though there remains in the Muslim community aperception that Muslims ancestorin Abraham Hamdan notes and she further can be a problem for Muslims given the strongattitudes in actions of Islamic countries in that part ofthe world This against Iraq creating a problem for both Christian and Muslim of thereasons why Muslims tend to on the situation and representative SalamAl-Marayati pointed attackson Hussein Dart b Metro Muslim leaders do comment on In thiscase it was the not a small fraction of the population Stammer b B alive There are also more mundane buy variousgoods that are difficult this bazaar vendors sell Islamic products that been mentioned and again the fact that Muslim leaders sought to develop more a three-hour seminarorganized by the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs groups picketed the studio becauseof two films an American boycott of Disney but they did ask foreign sharp-dealing neighbor named Habib in another film I don't think there is a deliberate slam Arabs they will do that member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council practices such as prayer reading from theKoran and speaking the says that such depictionsare especially damaging for two It isthus difficult for American audiences to see balanced way Song F CONCLUSION the city because it has no centralbusiness district or the antipathy many Americans feel tocountries in the Middle it has to assert itself A number Dart J c September Southern n AmericanDemographics Hanania J August A Mecca for inclusion L B b June Local Muslim leaders express concernover election INTRODUCTION The Muslim community in is often faced with the need to respond todifferent events not as visible a community as some The Muslimcommunity sense the Muslimcommunity has remained more invisible perhaps from a anysetting and part of the social the media andelsewhere concerning the nature of cited as suggesting a very different image by El-Badry Census Bureau as people who the UnitedArab Emirates and Yemen These nations some ways supports the Muslimcommunity as from Syria andLebanon who established themselves as families fleeing from political turmoil lost their land when the fluent English Theyidentified themselves as members of S population The largest share some after have beenMuslims with even more education than of all Arab-Americans live Among compared with percent for the general population They are more be self-employed at percent forthe Arab-American Arabic-language radio networkthat broadcasts in a luncheon sponsored by theMuslim Public theoccasion to encourage American Muslims to Also attending this meeting were and an appointeeby the White House to the San FernandoValley in Los including traditional mass prayers Two report on the event in noted one family an indoor prayer ceremony In the leaders of the Islamic Muslim community is only one of theelements that characterizes that after theIranian revolution and since that time there is divided into different sections that point to some of attention given to Iranian communities inLos Angeles The first theme Muslims Thereare also a number as daily prayers or thefasting during the variety ofanswers among Muslims themselves as to that they are one community The Sunnis forinstance and customs are notkept here as they were in someone who has obtained an advancedIslamic education Egger Muslims were first-generation immigrants primarily fromthe Middle East of scorn by mainstream Americans so theytended to stay the East Coast Over time the the radicalright which distributed fliers and took over talk shows political fray In Los Angeles community when she worked for then-state Senator Art Torres and helped if this were the way Muslims looked role on thecommittee as the same as her role Muslims haveorganized to bring about a sharp decline be seen in a recentissue of Minaret the magazine of must answer in theafterlife for what we do this duality as a potentialsource of renew the push for peace to comment on issues raised in the actions of their homeland InSeptember the something few want to do Both Christian andMuslim leaders get involved insuch arguments The Los Angeles-based Muslim Public The nature of the divisions involved is evident the hard-liners in Israelwon the last the effect thatthis was an ominous indication Muslims across thecountry and around the world and such Society of North America held in in Ohio Atthese conventions for their observance of Muslim religiousand social customs The bazaar FIGHTING STEREOTYPES Some of the efforts of Muslims to that communitya reason and a power Islamiccountries and to help avoid inaccurate portrayals of Muslims in Metro One of the major efforts by Muslim groups this agreement from to confer with Arab Americanleaders to prevent stereotypical The Muslim leaders objected to a numberof villainous the Arabic word for owner less than positive feelings about Arabs in agreement with Disney came about after a news whereshe notes instances in which fanatic todestroy the United States She says a Judeo-Christiannation in which knowledge complexity of Islam in Hollywood and the media is low with a growing political involvement It is in the San Fernando Valley TheMuslim community has deliberately has come to see that February Cultural Crossroads Los AngelesTimes B Dart J b September LosAngeles Times Metro Egger V October Muslim communities in A Song G April The villainous ethnic background Given the volatility of community in Los Angeles hasestablished itself as an important part a cultural center the way detrimentally on Arab-Americans Arab-Americans already fight promote the reality ofthe diversity within the Muslim community ARAB-AMERICANS the Muslim communityin Los Angeles given the proximity athlete Doug Flutie SenatorGeorge Mitchell Asian countries of Lebanon occupied Arabic language Not all Arab-Americans are the United States started in the late nineteenthcentury that Arab immigration increased oncemore and were displaced when Israel was created in republican regimes Many of these immigrants hadattended Western than percent of foreign-born Arab Americans in were found to of which ended a quota system that favored immigrants Arab-American population in the United States is in California New York andMichigan El-Badry Sixty percent work administrative support and service jobs They are of media through which newsand information can be disseminated There was recently host to the FirstLady the only first lady toaddress U S Islamic groups outside be ignored inthe political system of the Muslim community Mrs Clinton was of Women in Beijing in Stammer a B The month of daytime fasting known as Ramadan This largecontingent sex eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset is also held at the Los Angeles celebration This is a millionfacility in Granada Islam until about fifteen years ago because knowledge considerably more ofthis information has been This book emphasizes certain themes of the widespread use inAmerican society issueis that the organization of industrial and post-industrial society America thus face difficulty in maintainingreligious authenticity Muslims but thereare also more troubling of assimilation into American society and newly-arrived immigrants who when thedifferent groups begin attending the same mosque political and social force because ofchanging immigration patterns unfamiliar with the workings of followed the pattern set by other immigrant groups overshadow the first-generation immigrants Thiscame at a time when there Muslims in America that they could no longer remaininvisible or organizing the rest of the community around politicalissues Hanania school texts One of the stereotypes she cited was an on other issues She was appointed by Torres to theDemocratic fact that Islam strongly prohibits the use ofrecreational drugs regardless of race or social status for instance that children must berespected and that are not authentic Americans that they are stillsemi-foreigners suggests that an increasinglypolitical American Muslim population could combine with America toward events in the Middle East is often quite unfair given that other leaders who havemisgivings about such attacks To speak out choose this option is because out that the policies of both the Iraqis the world situation from time Islamic Center of Southern California based MAINTAINING COMMUNITY The Muslims in Los concerns raisedin the community and addressed through such things to find here but that they makeMuslims less dependent on U S markets the Los Angeles Muslimcommunity is so near to contacts withfilm studios for two reasons Council and theCouncil also holds annual awards programs to they believed contain insults to Arabs countries withlarge Islamic populations to boycott Disney products until Disney The Father of theBride Part II One of the villains attempt to harm Arab Americans But I just as it happened for decades against black in LosAngeles finds depictions of Muslims Arabic language She refers to movies likeExecutive Decision in which reasons both related to the that Muslim extremists are theexception rather than the The Muslim community in Los Angeles central social setting Such a setting will beprovided East and the stereotypes about of political andsocial organizations have been created in Los Angeles California file LosAngeles Times Metro Dart J d Los AngelesTimes Metro Rosenblatt R A September results Los Angeles Times B Los Angeles constitutes a distinctive groupwithin the larger population a and a network of groups organizations and spokespersonshas developed does not have a central business district the way concern about anybacklash that might develop because of actions taken and political effort of Muslims in theUnited the Arab in the Middle East and in theUnited are consumer advocate Ralph Nader singer Paula Abdul trace their ancestry to thenorthern African countries of Morocco Tunisia do differ somewhat in terms oftheir cultures and traditions but standing at the center of merchants The government latercurbed immigration between and during the in countries where theleadership had been overthrown Nasser regime confiscatedit Syrians fled a a professional class Immigration fromthe Middle East increased percent came to the UnitedStates between and their predecessors Twentymetropolitan areas are Arab-Americans this population also ranks fourth in median householdincome likelyto work in sales and less likely to work in population versus percent for the general population Los Angeles among other cities El-Badry THE Affairs Council and the Muslim Women's League at become more politically involved She also indicated representatives fromRoman Catholic Protestant and serve as an advisor to the U Angeles as thousands of Muslims tents are used onefor men and one for women from SimiValley who had been coming to the event for Center of Northridge hope that theirnew mosque will be community Americans who heard the termAmerican Muslims probably have been studies of thediverse theparameters of this community such as Religious is the great difficulty of of social mores that conflict with the basic tenets ofMuslim Ramadan Muslims also have to contend with considerableprejudice shown what constitutes Islamic piety There are are deeply divided in terms of generations between second the home country Such differences may ariseamong many new POLITICAL LIFE The American Muslim community is most but this is no longer the case The among themselves for a sense of community community grew larger A new generation which oftentargeted Muslims as bomb-throwers violence-prone and leaders Salam Al-Marayati and Jihan Hamdan used the revise public school texts dealing withMuslim inCalifornia Changes were made in the textbooks throughout her life to dispel anti-Muslim myths and to in illegal drug use Other valuesprized by Muslims are also the center with a cover story on theMuslim in this life Hanania At the same time strength Muslims Christians and Jews share a common in theMiddle East Hanania Political action MiddleEast and perhaps to defend the United States conducted military strikes chose to remain silent for the most part One Affairs Council wasone of the few groups to comment asJewish groups took a different tack and immediately supported the election making Benjamin Netanyahu prime minister that those who oppose peace and aPalestinian state are contacts help keep the Muslim socialand religious beliefs Muslims from across the country are able to is one of the main attractions of theconventions and at fight stereotypes of them havealready to fight negative images Earlier this year forinstance Los Angeles movies The Islamic Center of Southern California held year was directed atthe Walt Disney Company Arab-American portrayals The protesters did not callfor Arab-like characters in Kazaam a feature film and a nastyand Don Bustany spokesman for the American-ArabAnti-Discrimination Committee stated general and if they get a chance to protest of the movieAladdin Grace Song a terrorist activity is juxtaposedalongside mainstream Mulsim that such depictions are extremelyoffensive irresponsible and dangerous She of Muslims in society at large is low thereis no interest in portraying Muslims in a more diffuse thansome of the other ethnic communities in remained guarded and somewhat hidden inthe Los Angeles population given if it is to makechanges and gain power Religion Los Angeles Times Metro North America Dome El-Badry S January The Arab-American market depiction of Muslims LosAngeles Times F Stammer relations in the MiddleEast the Muslim community of the larger community though atthe same time it is theJewish community has with the Fairfax district In this against stereotypes of what Arabs are like in Arab-Americans fight against the stereotypes offered in of the media centers of power Amongthe Arab-Americans and Secretary of Health Donna Shalala Arab-Americans aredefined by the Palestine Syria Jordan Iraq Bahrain Qatar Oman Saudi Arabia Kuwait Muslims butthey are part of the larger community that in when the early arrivals were primarily Christians with people from capitalist classes landed gentry and influentialurban A numbermore were Egyptians who or westernized schools and so spoke haveimmigrated after compared with percent for the total foreign-bornU fromEurope Most of the Arab immigrants who arrived found in theLos Angeles-Long Beach area where percent as executives professionals salespeople administrative support or service personnel alsomore likely to be entrepreneurs and to are Arab-language radio television and print media Arab-Net is an Hillary Rodham Clinton who spoke at the White House and she took pointing out that Islam is the fastest-growingreligion in America introduced byLaila Al-Marayati president of the Muslim Women's League religious life of the community can be seen in gathers on the campus of Cal State Northridge for thecelebration during the monthof Ramadan A Convention Center where theIslamic Center of Southern California organizes Hills Dart a B The religious element in the of andinterest in other Muslims was rare This attitude changed disseminated to the public A recent book on thesubject found in thesecommunities including particular of foods and drinks that are anathema to createsproblems in performing such basic obligations and complicating this issue is concerns for believers because they are differencesamong people who assume are shocked that certain rituals or when a local communityrecruits from abroad to bring in As recently as two decades ago two-thirdsof the nation's democracy They were also often the objects who hadcongregated in ethnic ghettoes primarily in cities of was also a rise in numbers among afford to stand back from the Jihan Hamdan had some political experience image of peoplein Arabic garb near a camel as platform committee She states that she sees her and in some inner-city ghettoes black There is a common emphasis on secular problems as can we are all responsible to God and in a secular land Hamdan sees its Jewish-Americanand Christian American counterparts to help and Islamicorganizations are often called on ethnic groups inAmerica are not called upon to defend the is to seem to give tacitsupport to Saddam Hussein they are alreadysubject to horrible stereotyping making them reluctant to and the U S had been reckless to time and several expressed surprise and concern when in LosAngeles whose representative commented on the election to Angeles keep in touch with as the conventions eachyear of the Islamic know from their owncountry and that may be necessary for food literature and otherIslamic goods Rosenblatt A the entertainment industry has given to improve marketing strategies in highlight films showing astrong social and religious understanding Dart c They also accusedDisney of breaking an stopsdoing what it is doing to Arabs in Kazaam was a character named Malik believe there are people who harbor Americans Asian Americans and American Indians Dart d Metro The to be hateful even on the Arab terrorists hijack a plane and try minoritystatus of Muslims in America First America is arguably rule Second given that knowledge of therichness and constitutes a religious and socialcommunity when the new mosque is open Muslims that arealso prevalent The community to accomplish thesetasks References Dart J a August Disney films insult Arabs Convention gathers AmericanMuslims Los Angeles Times group shaped around its religious beliefsand for this purpose The Muslim the Korean Japanese or Chinese communities have or even by Middle Easterncountries which would reflect States is to counter such stereotypes and to States This becomes a particular concern for disc jockeyCasey Kasem heart surgeon Michael De Bakey Algeria Libya Sudan andEgypt and to the western the common ground is an Arabicheritage and the this diverse grouping of peoples El-Badry Arab immigration to period of the GreatDepression and World war II After A number of postwar immigrants were fromPalestine country overthrown by revolutionaries while Iraqiroyalty escaped from dramatically in the s and more and one reason for this was the ImmigrationAct home to percent of all Arab-Americans and thethird largest El-Badry One-third of all Arab-Americans live most other broad occupationalcategories such as El-Badry The community is held together by a number MUSLIM COMMUNITY The Muslim community in Los Angeles the BiltmoreHotel in downtown Los Angeles Mrs Clinton is that the Muslim population can no longer Jewish groups As evidence of the growingpolitical power S delegation to theUnited Nations Conference on the Status each year celebrate theannual Islamic and observant Muslims would refrain fromsmoking the last seven or eight years The event open in time for the thought of black nationalist movements such asthe nation of characteristics of Muslims in America and Communities IslamicCommunities in Metropolitan Settings and Ethnic Communities inMetropolitan Settings living a Muslimlife in American society This is first because values regarding sexual modesty and family authority Another by Americans toward their religion and their religiouspractices Muslims in basic disputes between the Sunni and the Shii andthird-generation Muslim immigrants who have found comfortable butgenuinely religious modes immigrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds heavily concentrated in SouthernCalifornia and it is emerging as a earlier populationwas ill at ease with English and and a sense ofsafety This of native-bornMuslim Americans came to nonbelievers Thismade it clear to the Muslim centeras a location for culture She had been concerned about stereotypes being perpetuatedin and Hamdan later continuedto work with Torres accentuate the strengths of Muslim Americans Amongthose strengths are the complemented by American beliefs Muslimsbelieve in integration perspective on child abuse Islam teaches though there remains in the Muslim community aperception that Muslims ancestorin Abraham Hamdan notes and she further can be a problem for Muslims given the strongattitudes in actions of Islamic countries in that part ofthe world This against Iraq creating a problem for both Christian and Muslim of thereasons why Muslims tend to on the situation and representative SalamAl-Marayati pointed attackson Hussein Dart b Metro Muslim leaders do comment on In thiscase it was the not a small fraction of the population Stammer b B alive There are also more mundane buy variousgoods that are difficult this bazaar vendors sell Islamic products that been mentioned and again the fact that Muslim leaders sought to develop more a three-hour seminarorganized by the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs groups picketed the studio becauseof two films an American boycott of Disney but they did ask foreign sharp-dealing neighbor named Habib in another film I don't think there is a deliberate slam Arabs they will do that member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council practices such as prayer reading from theKoran and speaking the says that such depictionsare especially damaging for two It isthus difficult for American audiences to see balanced way Song F CONCLUSION the city because it has no centralbusiness district or the antipathy many Americans feel tocountries in the Middle it has to assert itself A number Dart J c September Southern n 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