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The only ‘white’ Muslim I can think of is not American, he’s English. Cat Stevens, the famous folk singer of the 1970s, converted in a very public way in the early 1980s. I know there are a tiny number of American Indians who have converted to Islam. They became interested in the faith because of the claims of some Muslim historians that Muslim navigators came to the Americas before the Europeans. These same historians also claim the Cherokees have had Muslim chiefs and the Iroquois traditions are influenced by Islam. As far as I know, no other historians take these claims as credible, and the claims contradict every native oral history tradition around. I was also curious when you said some Latinos have converted to Islam, because I have never seen or heard of any. Are these Latinos with black or Arab ancestry? (There are a few Arab Latinos, like Carlos Menem the president of Argentina.)

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Name : ACC25028, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student in history, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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