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Islam is the new religion in rebellious Mexican state Chiapas
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/is...-state-chiapas
More and more Mayan and Tzotzil people in the Mexican state Chiapas are becoming Muslims. It's fifteen years since the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and the region has undergone some profound changes. One of them is the emergence of Islam as a new religion in the state. The Muslim community, dominated by converted Mayans and Tzotzils , is slowly gaining ground.
By Jan-Albert Hootsen
Molino de los Arcos is one of the poorest neighbourhoods of San Cristóbal de las Casas, the second largest city in Chiapas and popular with tourists for its colonial beauty. The barrio is ethnically almost entirely indigenous, with Tzotzil Mayan as the dominant language. On Fridays, though, you can hear the slow, monotonous Arab chants of Muslim prayer. In a wooden shack, painted with Arab religious phrases, some twenty Tzotzil Muslim families have established a small place of worship.
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First the Spanish Catholics came in and exterminated the native cultures, societies, wealth and economy of the native peoples of South and Central America. Now the Spanish Muslims are coming in to mop up.
First, they were forced to speak Spanish, now they are being forced to speak Arabic.