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Muslims in US
Nov 18 2009, Marco Villa

Arab-Americans have long settled in the United States. It is believed that amongst Columbus’ crew were several Arabs and even Muslims. That is very plausible. When Columbus was headed on his quest to find a new route to India, a large Arab-Muslim...

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