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Philly's Muslims Are Warming to the Political Process

By Jeff Deeney
Philadelphia City Paper | April 15, 2008
"When someone in the Muslim community tells you, 'We don't vote,' they're coming from an old way of thinking. That really was the case; for a while we stayed away from voting, and some members still feel that way." Saadiq Abdul Jabbar was alluding to the long history of separatism in the black Muslim world. "Things have changed a lot, though."
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