Latina/o y Musulman by Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez

Some Latinos have argued that Islamic values harmonize with the traditional values of Latino culture. Reasons for conversion Part of a series on In contrast, the Arabs took Islam to very few Latin American countries such as Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia via post-independence immigration. The Spaniards took the Roman Catholic faith to Latin America via imperialism and colonialism Roman Catholicism continues to be the largest, but not the only, religious denomination among most Hispanics.

Muslims believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed many times before through prophets including Adam, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and the Quran in its Arabic to be the unaltered and final revelation of God. The primary scriptures of Islam are the Quran, claimed to be the verbatim word of God, and the teachings and normative examples (called the sunnah, composed of accounts called hadith) of Muhammad. Islam is an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God ( Allah), and that Muhammad is a messenger of God. Hispanic and Latino Americans are an ethnolinguistic group of citizens of the United States with origins in Spain and Latin America. Hispanic and Latino American Muslims are Hispanic and Latino Americans who are of the Islamic faith. Latin Americans, Spaniards, White Latin Americans, Criollos, American Indians, Afro-Latin Americans, Asian Latin Americans, Mestizos, Mulattoes, Pardos, Castizos, Quarteróns, Tejanos, Nuevomexicanos, Californios, Chicanos, Boricuas, Nuyoricans, Portuguese Americans, Caribbean Americans Portuguese (by those of Brazilian descent), Portuguese Creole, Amerindian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Bosnian, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kartvelian languages, Ossetian, Kurdish languages, Assyrian, Northeast Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian languages, Gagauz, Crimean Tatar, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Nogai, Romani, Berber languages Hispanic and Latino American Muslims Total population

Latina/o y Musulman by Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez