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U.S. Industrial Transformation and New Latino Migration
Two important trends characterize the migration of Latinos to the United States today. First, the total Latino population has actually expanded at a faster rate in rural areas than in urban areas, in contrast with past patterns of settlement in cities. Second, half of all rural county Latinos now live outside the Southwest, where for centuries the largest concentrations of Latinos had settled.
This sweeping change in Latino migration has affected and been affected by the United States' ongoing industrial transformation, most notably in the meat-processing industry. The following analysis tracks changes in that industry, and may shed light on wider forces driving Latino migration, as well as the challenges this migration presents for policy makers and communities.
Table 1: U.S. States with fastest growing nonmetro Hispanic populations, 1990-2000
Changing Industry, Changing Migration
Like companies in several other U.S. industries in the past two decades, rural-based meat processing firms found themselves facing an increasingly educated domestic workforce that had greater employment options resulting from extended macroeconomic growth (see sidebar). While meat-processing wages remain relatively high compared with those of low-skilled employment in other industrial sectors, they also entail hazardous working conditions. Given the increasing demand for value-added food products from an ever-expanding population, larger plant sizes in increasingly rural locations, stagnant or declining real wages, and high employee turnover, meat-processing plants encountered difficulties in filling the demand for local workers. Moreover, the food-processing industry was becoming more and more competitive and price-sensitive, with improvements in profit margins measured in fractions of a cent. Because of difficulty or inability to locate local workers, managers gradually began recruiting foreign-born workers.
Links to Migration: The Changing Meat-Processing Industry
Coinciding with this growing competition for workers, particularly in the booming tourist and retirement destinations of the Southeast, came an increase in the Latino proportion of the meat-processing industry's workforce. The Current Population Survey (CPS) data in Figure 1 show the Latino workforce proportion increasing from eight to 35 percent since 1980 (see Figure 1). Over the same period, the proportion of non-Latino whites declined from 76 to 41 percent, while that of blacks increased from 15 to 21 percent. The increasing proportion of Latinos and blacks occurred as absolute numbers of meat-processing workers were increasing, which suggests that the two groups may have been competing for the same low-skilled jobs. In addition, because CPS data historically undercount foreign-born persons who are reluctant to answer government surveys, the Latino component of the workforce shown in Figure 1 is most likely a conservative estimate.
These changes overlapped with—and to some extent may have helped spur—two important trends affecting the Latino population in this period. First, as shown in Census 2000 data, the extraordinary expansion of the rural Latino population exceeded urban Latino population growth and the growth of rural residents of all other racial and ethnic groups (see Table 1). Second, in 2000, for the first time in U.S. history, half of all rural county Latinos lived outside the Southwest. By the end of the 1990s, Latinos still represented only 5.5 percent of the entire nonmetropolitan county population but accounted for over 25 percent of its growth during the decade. Such growth was not geographically isolated; in rural counties, Latino population growth exceeded that of non-Latinos for every state except Hawaii. While relatively small in terms of absolute numbers, the Latino population's high growth rates in Midwestern and Southeastern states mirror significant industrial transformation and portend equally significant demographic and social change.
Latino population growth in rural areas can occur because of migration and natural increase. Migration, either from other countries or other parts of the United States, is often a response to economic conditions as well as information about employment opportunities that passes through highly effective social networks. Natural increase also results from international migration, which tends to be undertaken by young people about to form their own families, rather than older people not at risk of having children. In addition, Latino fertility rates (2.4 births per woman) in the U.S. are higher than those of all other racial and ethnic groups, including blacks (2.0) and non-Latino whites (1.8).
Latino population growth has increased significantly since the mid-1960s as a result of family reunification and country preferences outlined in the 1965 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. However, in the past several decades, the abovementioned changes in industrial composition have also significantly affected population growth, especially in rural areas. Moreover, low-income neighborhoods in many traditional urban destination cities (such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami) often present high barriers to successful settlement, such as expensive housing, high crime rates, and substandard schools. As recent migrants acquire information about employment opportunities elsewhere and extend their employment spells in the U.S. because of greater restrictions to frequent international migration, they are more likely to select alternative destinations.
These demographic changes raise important policy concerns related to recent Latino population growth in new rural destinations outside the Southwest. For some rural areas experiencing decades of gradual population decline, population growth brings positive impacts by generating new economic activity and greater government fiscal support. Yet immigrant population growth also challenges municipalities to meet increased demands for social services, particularly for persons with limited English proficiency. While immigrants typically occupy relatively less desirable low-wage jobs and pay their full share of taxes, their presence may depress the wages of native-born residents. Such mixed outcomes invariably create tensions. On the one hand, plant owners and economic development proponents tend to favor the economic benefits of Latino population growth. On the other, local residents frequently are wary of public expenditures, perceived or real competition for jobs, and influxes of neighbors of other races, languages, and faiths. Moreover, once immigrants have established themselves, they often support other immigrants from their home communities, fostering additional population growth.
Figure 1: Racial/Ethnic Composition of Labor Force in Meat Processing, 1980-2000
Table 2: Nonmetropolitan County Employment in Meat Processing, 1981-2000
Figure 2: Total U.S. Meat Consumption, 1970-2000
Figure 3: Shipment Value Produced by Meat Processing Plants with 400+ Employees, 1963-1997
Emerging patterns of Latino settlement appear to be increasingly responsive to industrial transformation over time. This contention is supported by data for other economic sectors that have undergone similar industrial transformations, such as agriculture, construction, and numerous durable and nondurable goods-manufacturing industries. While such data by themselves do not prove that structural change causes Latino population growth, they are clearly consistent with that causal relationship. As rising education attainment leads to better-paid employment options for the general population, manufacturing firms that do not or cannot relocate production overseas may adopt strategies to create similar fiscal conditions in the U.S. through the increasing employment of foreign-born workers.
Two sets of policy implications emerge from this data. First, industrial transformation often implies a corresponding growth in employment paths with relatively limited prospects for occupational and economic mobility. Growing proportions of Latinos in such transforming industries and accompanying rapid Latino population growth often foreshadow expanding socioeconomic inequality, a serious policy issue given the considerable growth rate and size of the "second generation" of native-born Latinos. Second, on a more immediate time-horizon, industrial transformation often signals the growth of local and regional Latino communities, particularly in rural counties that may be unprepared to address their social service needs.
Prepared for publication by the Migration Policy Institute, based upon a presentation at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Minneapolis, MN, May 1-3. Please address comments to William Kandel, ERS, 1800 M Street, NW, Room S2056, Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 694-5021, [email protected].
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article do not represent those of the Economic Research Service or the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


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It's time once again for our monthly letter writing night! Join us in writing letters to folks in prisons across Pennsylvania. This is a great opportunity to connect with folks on the inside and ensure that the work of DPA is informed and led by the ideas, experiences and wisdom of our members behind the walls. Letter writing night happens the second and fourth Thursday of every month at the Institute for Community Justice (1207 Chestnut Street)
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I take a lot of photos, but haven't been sharing them much because I never seem to get time to process them. But my friend K is out visiting the area for a photo expedition, so we did some meandering around. He's much more disciplined as a photographer than I am, so he sensibly carved some time out of the weekend to process some photos, and made me do the same. Thank you!
I reduced my original 230 photos to a much more manageable 37, but that's still a bit much for a post and I haven't got my greasemonkey script that gives me a thumbnail photo gallery from flickr working again, so here's just a few:
Something about this bridge and the pattern of clouds in the sky was just calling to me. We were wondering how heavy those counterweights are, and thankfully it turns out there's a whole information page about Hawthorne Bridge. The answer is 450 tons! The bridge also opens a lot more frequently than I would have guessed: they claim 200 times per month. It doesn't answer the last question I had, though, which is "why would they put the control hut on top of the part of the bridge that moves?" I'm guessing it makes it easier to see the clearance, but that seems like a bunch of extra weight to lift!
Since moving out of the desert, I find myself constantly amazed by trees, but actually, we were there to take a gander at the library:
Public Library (Portland Central Library)
Alas, it was closed by the time we went by, but still photogenic! There's lots of cute details like the author names on each bench:
K on the Charles Dickens bench
From there, we visited Washington Park. Alas, it turns out the bus doesn't run very late, so we wound up at Hoyt Arboretum instead of the rose garden, but turns out holly is pretty fun to photograph. The holly garden has some really lovely varieties — much prettier than I'd seen prior to moving here, so I was glad to get some pictures. Look at those tricolour leaves!
… although some of it is a bit terrifying at macro distances:
Very Spiky Holly
I got to try out one of K's extension tubes, which were something I'd never really thought about using. They're much lighter than carrying my actual macro lens, and while I've been managing ok with carrying heavy gear and not pinching that nerve in my leg again, it's definitely a nicer lightweight option for me to consider. I'm trying to force myself to work on better processing habits before I start buying more equipment, though.
It was pretty cool, though it makes my focal distance so very short that I was a tad concerned about how far I was sticking my face into those spikes. I definitely got my hair stuck on some holly a few times.
Dandelion seeds, half gone with the wind
Dandelions are much safer.
And finally, one photo that I don't think is technically very good, but I love the way bokeh makes the flowers look like they're sparkling:
Want to see the rest? They're in my "Portlandia" gallery here, along with a couple of older photos.
We did eventually make it to the rose garden on Monday after work, but I haven't even pulled those ones off the camera yet. I'd better start working on those soon!


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Using the structure of today's screen-mediated communications, these performers contribute their parts one at a time, responding to what was played before, and together they build "born digital" performances that expose the delays and glitches of network communications and make something genuinely *human* with it. As the audience, we witness performances that only exist in our web browsers, in the moments we're viewing it. There can be no "definitive version" of the performance!
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Who Owns The Title Deed of Your Property?
A Title Deed is the legal document which legally confirms the ownership of a property and is filed at the Deeds Office and contains details of the property. From the time that you registered a mortgage bond with your bank on the property that you purchased, they keep your Title Deed in safe custody until such time as your home loan is fully paid.
Up to that stage they are legally entitled to keep the title deed as it effectively belongs to the bank who has loaned you the money to purchase the home.
It is a custom for the banks to provide home-owners' insurance (HOC – Home Owner's Cover) for owners with a home loan, which insures the property against damages – this is a requirement of the home loan before it is granted. You may opt to arrange your own insurance, and if the bank is satisfied with the underwriters, they will allow this.
With your home loan fully paid off, the bank will still continue debiting you for bank service fees and the original insurance premiums. You are still liable for the monthly costs while the home loan is active until such time it is cancelled by the mortgage bond owner. The decision that needs to be made is whether to cancel the mortgage bond and close your bond account, or keep the account open.
"The choice to keep the bond account open or not needs serious consideration", says Craig Hutchison, CEO Engel & Völkers Southern Africa. "There are many advantages in keeping your home loan account active, although the owner should be aware that monthly bank service fees as well as insurance premiums (if applicable) will be levied by the bank for as long as the account is open."
These monthly costs are reasonable, as the bank needs to cover the costs they incur on your behalf by managing your home loan account and your home owner's insurance. Banks will provide annual statements of any rate changes and also the insurance premiums – home owners are advised to monitor these rates.
Craig is of the opinion that is always worthwhile keeping the the home loan account open as you never know when a lucrative opportunity may arise, such as purchasing another property, and the existing loan account facility can be utlilised for this.
Attorneys De Beer & Claassen advise that "If the client elects to cancel the bond, the bank will give instructions to its cancellation attorneys and will send the original title deed and mortgage bond to the attorneys to proceed."
The attorneys will draw up the cancellation letter and lodge it together with the original title deed and mortgage bond in the Deeds Office. The Registrar of Deeds will place an endorsement on the title deed which serves as proof that the bond has been paid up and cancelled, and upon confirmation of cancellation, the bank will close the home loan account.
Own home insurance is generally cheaper, so get a quote from reputable insurance company before cancelling with your bank.
At any stage the home-owner may opt to get their own home-owners' insurance from a private company, however you need to be fully aware of exactly what is covered should there be damage or a disaster in your home.
As your bank technically owns your home and as such have a vested interest in the owner having adequate insurance, they may request to review your home-owners policy to ensure they are satisfied there is sufficient cover. If you take HOC through your personal bank, they can deduct the annual premium from your home loan and add this premium to your monthly instalment. However you may decide to pay this separately to avoid possible extra interest being added to your home loan.
Should you decide to take out your own insurance, it is advisable to ask your bank to confirm they are happy with the total cover, and remember that you need to take responsibility that the premium is paid every month to your own insurance company.
Private insurance companies will advise you annually what the replacement value of your home is, and if you don't lodge a dispute, they will adjust your premiums accordingly. We suggest that you monitor this annual change in replacement value and if necessary, request that the value be adjusted. Banks and insurance companies may not be aware of any improvements and renovations you have done and could easily under-insure your property.
"According to ABSA, for example, the cost of building a new home is currently 37% higher, on average, than the cost of buying an equivalent pre-owned home." says Shaun Rademeyer, CEO of BetterBond.
So even if you paid off your home never let your HOC fall away. This could be disastrous.
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Rafiq Mahdi, another South Florida Muslim leader, doesn't see Islam in the same light; he is a fundamentalist. Mahdi envisions an Islamic empire, a place where, if you don't follow Muslim rules, you are free -- to leave the country. While Mahdi doesn't espouse terrorism in the Middle East, he sympathizes with Palestinian suicide bombers and refuses to call Hamas, which has sponsored the killing of hundreds of civilians, a terrorist organization.
The two men could hardly be more different. Mohamed is a gregarious, highly Americanized extrovert from the West Indies. Mahdi is a somber, highly Islamicized introvert born in Knoxville. Mohamed runs a large and liberal mosque called Darul Uloom in the middle-class suburb of Pembroke Pines in Broward County. Mahdi oversees a small, fundamentalist mosque, Masjid Al-Iman, in a low-income black neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale. Mohamed waves a United States flag; Mahdi denounces American foreign policy.
It would seem the two men have only their black beards and a belief in Allah in common. But there is another thing: Both of their mosques have gained international notoriety for links to alleged extremists and would-be terrorists. Between them they've been tied not only to José Padilla, the so-called "dirty bomber," but also to a pair of immigrants plotting a South Florida jihad and to two Muslims who raised funds for companies that allegedly serve as fronts for terror groups.
Although Mahdi convincingly says he would report to authorities any Muslims he suspected of planning violence, it's not surprising that extremists would be attracted to his mosque. The explanation for the liberal Mohamed's association with terrorism at his Islamic institute is perhaps more frightening. It seems that if you build it, the extremists will come. Welcome or not.
While the war on terrorism inches along, another secretive battle is being waged within South Florida's Islamic community. Mohamed and Mahdi embody the conflict. Mohamed complains that fundamentalists have threatened his life and that some local Muslims, including Mahdi, are increasingly intolerant of his views. Mahdi, for his part, doesn't approve of Mohamed's liberal pronouncements, which he believes are an affront to true Islam. These differences are typical of the internecine fight within Islam, a growing battle for power between liberals and fundamentalists, Arabs and non-Arabs, and those who embrace the secular world and those who want to retreat into the strictures of old Islam. The outcome could mean the difference between peace and war.
José Padilla, whom the Bush administration alleges was plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in the United States for al Qaeda before his arrest, attended religious classes at the liberal Darul Uloom, but his real spiritual home after converting to Islam in 1992 was Masjid Al-Iman.
A plain, neatly kept little building across the street from a small public park, Masjid Al-Iman attracts roughly 250 people for the weekly Friday sermon. African Americans founded the mosque about twenty years ago. (It is located just west of I-95 south of Sunrise Boulevard.) During the past decade, though, it was headed by an Islamic fundamentalist Palestinian named Raed Awad, who counted Padilla as one of his faithful followers.
During a telephone interview from his new home in Alabama, Awad says Padilla never stood out as an extremist before he left for Egypt in 1998. "He was a polite person, very reserved, he was a -- what is it? A shy person. He hardly asked any questions," says Awad, who left South Florida last year. "I was surprised he would like to travel, because he wasn't that type of outgoing person."
The only private time Awad says he spent with Padilla was when he counseled the young man on his marriage (a dubious undertaking for Awad, who is divorced and whose former wife repeatedly accused him, in local police reports and court papers, of physically abusing both her and their children).
Before Padilla left for Egypt, Awad and members of Masjid Al-Iman raised money to help pay for the trip. Awad certainly has a knack for fundraising. From 1998 through 2000 he served as the registered agent in Florida for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Palestinian charity group based in Texas. With a briefcase full of checks, he traveled the United States and Latin America raising money from Muslims for the foundation. Although he refuses to estimate how much he collected, he doesn't deny it was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It was dirty money, however, according to the Bush administration, which froze the foundation's bank accounts this past December. For years the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been scrutinizing the Holy Land Foundation for alleged ties to Hamas, Awad says. On February 24, 1998, terrorism expert Stephen Emerson testified before Congress that the organization funded terrorism, paid martyred suicide bombers' families, and held rallies "calling for jihad and death to the Jews."
Federal officials have yet to offer proof the foundation was indeed a front for Hamas, and Awad adamantly denies it. "The money went to help Muslims," he insists. "There were certain projects in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jordan. We were instructed never to talk about politics when we raised funds."
The Bush administration also froze the bank accounts of the Benevolence International Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation, two Chicago-based groups with ties to Osama bin Laden that were represented in Florida by Awad friend and fellow Masjid Al-Iman member Adham Hassoun of Sunrise. Hassoun, also a Palestinian, was jailed in June on suspicion he aided Padilla in the alleged bomb plot.
Awad echoes what many local Muslims say about Hassoun: He wasn't an extremist but he could, with his passionate pro-Palestinian and anti-U.S. foreign-policy stance, sound like one. "Hassoun was a member of my mosque, and he would give emotional speeches -- he was a firebrand," Awad recalls. "He was a very kind, very sensitive, very helpful man. He would help anyone. But he was passionate. I often told him: 'Your words will bring trouble upon you.'
"He was critical of the U.S. government, and I am critical of the U.S. government. I see American policy as one-sided with the Israelis. I see a double standard."
When Awad stepped down from his position as Masjid Al-Iman's imam, or prayer leader, in early 2000, he asked friend Mahdi, who then headed the Miami Gardens mosque, to take over the congregation. Mahdi, unlike Awad, wasn't born in the heat of Middle Eastern conflict. Rather he was brought up in Knoxville, Tennessee, in a family that worshiped at an African Methodist Episcopal church. It wasn't until 1978, when he was 24 years old, that he converted to Islam. A carpenter by trade, he helped found a group called the Muslim Community in Knoxville in 1984 and, four years after that, went to Saudi Arabia to study Islam. He returned in 1994 and ultimately became the imam of the Miami Gardens mosque. (Located at 4305 NW 183rd St., the mosque is one of the oldest in South Florida and boasts one of the largest congregations.) Mahdi accepted Awad's offer and took over Masjid Al-Iman, where he has been ever since.
Mahdi doesn't consider his mosque conservative or fundamentalist, just true to the religion: "Islam is Islam, and it has been since it was revealed 1400 and some odd years ago, and it is not the right of any individual to take it upon themselves to change it based on their own rationale or want or desire. We want to keep it in the truest form."
Mahdi sits behind his small desk in his cramped office at the back of his mosque on a recent Monday morning, a framed picture of Mecca beside him on the wall. A big man with a big black beard, he wears a flowing white robe and often ignores the high-pitched burbling of his phone, which sounds every few minutes. Occasionally he takes a call and speaks in rhythmic, fluent Arabic. Above his head is a shelf of religious volumes mixed with books on subjects like the Scholastic Aptitude Test and calculus. He uses the textbooks to educate some of his more underprivileged followers.
The 47-year-old Mahdi lives a simple life -- he eschews cable television, for instance -- and is dedicated to outreach in rough neighborhoods like the one that surrounds his mosque. He also counsels inmates in various Florida prisons and at the Broward County Jail. As he answers questions, he is rigidly circumspect, speaking in his smooth, deep voice only after carefully choosing his words.
Although he clearly has strong fundamentalist views, Mahdi doesn't promote political violence in Israel or America. He says he was sickened by the September 11 attacks, as were all other Americans. "It is impossible for me to understand how a Muslim would feel that carrying out the acts of 9/11 in some way is going to benefit Islam and Muslims -- there is no way it does," he declares. "So whoever would come to a conclusion to have some type of war against America, they have without a doubt deviated from any sense of proper understanding of the religion."
Mahdi criticizes the Jewish occupation of Palestine and America's unyielding support for Israel even when the Jewish state commits terrible human-rights abuses. He appeals to Americans to consider Palestinians' difficult lives under Israeli occupation before judging suicide bombers. "Is anyone really asking, seriously, how would a young person come to the mind frame that they want to blow themselves up and take along with them as many Israelis as they could?" he asks. "This, of course, is not a normal condition. So I think we need to look at why would that condition come about."
He also disagrees with what he perceives as America's inconsistent and hypocritical foreign policy toward oil-rich Saudi Arabia. "I think the perception that many Muslims have regarding [America] is that [it] supports unjust regimes, and many Saudis feel the Saudi government is unjust," he says. "Of course, those of us who are aware of the type of government in Saudi Arabia, we recognize that it is a monarchy where there is no election and there is no choice for the people."
Mixed with these reasonable arguments is unmistakable fundamentalist rhetoric. For instance, even as Madhi condemns the 9/11 attacks, he qualifies it by saying that the death and destruction didn't "benefit" Islam. By that logic, it follows that, had the attacks helped Islam, they would have been justified. Further Mahdi says he isn't convinced that bin Laden was behind the attacks, despite the evidence that has been uncovered. He doesn't say bin Laden is innocent; Madhi wants the leader of al Qaeda captured and brought to trial. "I want to hear his side of the story," he explains.
As for suicide bombings, the imam says he has wrestled long and hard with the question of whether they are necessary and has ultimately come to the conclusion they are not a "viable military option."
"I don't know the infrastructure of Hamas or its mission statement, but in regard to freeing the occupied territories, I support their goal," Mahdi says. "Not being under the everyday pressure or reality of living in the occupied territories, I find it difficult to blanketly condemn [suicide bombings], although personally I don't see that it will bring about the desired goal.
"Most Muslims would not view Hamas as a terrorist organization, even though there is some debate in scholarly quarters of the Muslim world about the permissibility of suicide bombing as a military alternative. But even those who reject it ... view [Hamas] as being incorrect in their opinion, but not necessarily as terrorists." (Hamas's slogan, according to its charter, is: "Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Quran its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the cause of Allah its most sublime belief.")
Mahdi also implicitly defends the Taliban, saying pointedly that he can't understand why America bombed Afghanistan when fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. But Mahdi is as critical of Islamic governments as he is of his own. "There is no single government in the Muslim world that is ruling the country according to Islam," he asserts. "Even though you have the labels of 'Islamic Republics' in Iran, Pakistan, Sudan ... none of these governments are ruling the people according to the belief of the people."
The answer, Mahdi believes, is a return to "true Islam." He wants "the Muslim world to adopt the Islamic model." This may sound a little like the goal of bin Laden and the Taliban, but it isn't. He says he wants it done peacefully. "There would be no lottery, there would be no liquor stores, there would be no nude beaches," Mahdi hypothesizes. "But of course there would be the pursuit of education, the pursuit of wealth, the pursuit of happiness. But certain things would be regulated according to that which is the legislation of Islam."
And if a woman, say, wanted to wear Western-style clothes in this new country? Mahdi's answer is simple: "She would have the choice -- if people don't like the rules, then they can leave."
While Mahdi dreams of a Middle Eastern empire, Shafayat Mohamed professes his love for the United States, where he wants to see Muslims thrive. "I believe that a true Islamic state is when Muslims can live with everybody else," Mohamed says. "That is a true Islamic system, when Muslims can tolerate other faiths and other cultures."
The maulana, or Islamic scholar, doesn't agree with Mahdi on much of anything. Though Mohamed's Darul Uloom is just fifteen miles south of Masjid Al-Iman, the two mosques may as well be on opposite sides of the earth.
With its green-and-white painted façade and golden tassels adorning support poles, Darul Uloom is more reminiscent of Christmas than Ramadan. Located in a storefront on Pines Boulevard where a Great Value Supermarket used to be, the mosque was renovated a few years ago for two million dollars, Mohamed says. He boasts 700 worshipers, whom he may as well call customers, for Mohamed is not only a maulana; he is also a capitalist.
A big, friendly man with a quick smile and a salesman's good cheer, Mohamed sometimes sponsors automobile shows, with flashy Corvettes and Lamborghinis, in Darul Uloom's parking lot. He publishes a for-profit monthly Islamic newsletter, Al-Hikmat, with the motto "Only the Wise Advertise." Inside the institute is a souvenir shop, where everything from small models of Mecca to coffee cups (six dollars each) to toy trucks and talking alarm clocks are for sale.
A patriotic believer in the West, Mohamed displayed a U.S. flag in front of the institute after September 11. During a recent Friday sermon, he preached not about the evil of infidels but about the need to eliminate hatred from within Islam. Standing at his ornately carved pulpit of polished wood, he spoke into a microphone, the words amplified through several loudspeakers in the expansive mosque. Outside, cars jammed the parking lot, as they do for each Friday service. Wearing everything from traditional Islamic dress to Shell gas station T-shirts, his congregation packed Darul Uloom.
After the sermon, when the cars are gone, Mohamed, wearing a gold-threaded black robe, sits down on a simple folding chair not far from his pulpit. "I am on an antiterrorism campaign," he says, adjusting his spectacles. "We can come together. Jews and Muslims can work together."
Mohamed has done more than his part, forging strong relationships with rabbis and ministers and becoming active in several mainstream community boards. He's won awards for his efforts, and he seems to have been born to unite Islam with other religions. Growing up in Trinidad, his family flirted with Christianity and Hinduism, and his father owned a supermarket that served alcohol. "I'm an Islamic scholar, and my father ran a bar," he says with a mixture of mock disbelief and amusement. "At one point I prayed to Jesus as a child. We had a picture of Jesus in my house. I think that is why my picture of the world is so different."
It's a world-view that has provoked conservative Muslims to oppose him: "Some Palestinian guys threatened me last year when they were having marches. One of them told one of my friends: 'Tell Maulana Shafayat that he doesn't support us, he supports the other people, and we're going to get rid of him.' I get a lot of threat calls, cursing my views, but they are anonymous."
Many Arab Muslims have come to loathe him. "They wouldn't tell me that in my face, so they tell my friends that Shafayat does not like Arabs," he says. "Or that I don't support Palestine.... When they have [pro-Palestinian] marches and they invite me, I don't go. I don't believe in demonstrations. You don't need to go out and stand like a fool in the street. I don't like it. I think it's a backward operation."
Too many Arabs are driven by hateful politics, Mohamed says, and he refuses to fall into their trap. "They call me a hypocrite. They say, 'Are you [with us] or are you with them?'" he complains. "They say I am bought over by the Americans, that I'm bought over by the Jews, that I don't preach jihad. And I think: These guys have got to be crazy guys. I hope they can get a little more educated and stop thinking so foolish."
Mohamed is unambiguous in his support for America's war in Afghanistan ("It tells the world that the radical guys like the Taliban will not be tolerated") and denounces the killing of civilians and all acts of terrorism in America, Israel, and anywhere else in the world. "People say this is fighting for freedom; I say this is a coward's method," he maintains. "Islam totally prohibits the killing of innocent people."
Not surprisingly his congregation is from all over the world and includes, as Mohamed puts it, "only a handful of Arabs ... a handful who are intelligent and educated and ... left the craziness over there."
But the bloody conflicts and polemical politics of the Middle East infect all of Islam, including Mohamed's own Darul Uloom. The alleged "dirty bomber," Padilla, for instance, is of Puerto Rican descent and grew up in Chicago before converting to Islam. Mohamed says Padilla attended religious classes for a few months in the mid-Nineties. He recounts that Padilla was quiet and never spouted radical rhetoric at Darul Uloom. "He wound up amongst the Arabs," Mohamed laments. "And that's where he got his [terrorist] operation."
Another operation, however, started in Mohamed's own institute. Imran Mandhai, an immigrant from Pakistan, and Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, from Mohamed's homeland of Trinidad, were indicted on May 17 for allegedly conspiring on numerous terrorist bombings. In hindsight, Mohamed says, Mandhai also seemed to be an "extremist in practice." The teen once called a visiting imam an "infidel" and openly criticized Mohamed's liberal style. "But I had no reason to think that they were [aspiring terrorists]," he says. "They are just coming in here and praying, and they could have planned to shoot me for all I knew. Nobody knew what their agenda is."
According to the FBI, Mandhai's agenda was death and destruction in South Florida. The plot, according to federal prosecutors, began in 2000 when nineteen-year-old Mandhai befriended a Turk named Hakki Aksoy at Darul Uloom. Aksoy told Mandhai he had been a warrior for Islam in Turkey, had killed two people, and was "very much willing to ... engage in Jihad," according to court records.
The pair visited gun ranges and studied explosives. Then in November 2000 federal agents arrested the 36-year-old Aksoy, who was charged with possessing fraudulent immigration papers and a 9-millimeter pistol. Also found in Aksoy's Hollywood home were bomb-making manuals. Aksoy was convicted in February and is serving a ten-year prison sentence.
Mandhai also plotted destruction with a Hollywood man named Howard Gilbert, whom Mohamed converted in early 2001. "I open my arms to anybody. We converted him like anybody else," Mohamed explains. "I never asked Howard what his agenda was. I thought he was a good guy."
What Mohamed didn't know was that Gilbert was an aspiring federal agent, a cloak-and-dagger type who pretended to be a Muslim only so he could infiltrate the Islamic world, uncover militants, and report them to the FBI. Gilbert tricked Mandhai into believing he was in contact with bin Laden, or "Big Brother," as Gilbert called him. Mandhai, federal prosecutors contend, jumped at the chance to join forces with Gilbert and brought his friend, Jokhan, into the plot as well.
Mohamed says he saw some subtle signs of extremism from Gilbert, who took the Muslim name Saif Allah, or Sword of Allah: "Gilbert gave a talk here once, and I thought it was a little extreme -- it seemed a little emotional. I think he said something like: '[Americans] hate us Muslims.'"
If Mohamed was naive about extremists in his presence before September 11, he isn't anymore. He says he is now in regular contact with the police and FBI regarding "suspicious Muslims." "I called the cops and told them that I need protection -- that there are extremist guys who pass through here," he says. "We all hope and think Padilla was made [a radical] when he went to Egypt. But if he was made here -- whew, that could mean danger for everybody, for me and you and everybody."
The differences between liberals like Mohamed and fundamentalists like Mahdi have likely been around since Islam began more than 1400 years ago. But it was the attacks on America that sparked the open conflict between the two men. "The liberal people were cool and happy and not thinking of all this craziness," Mohamed says. "But when the September 11 thing happened, the time came to draw this line and say who we are, rather than let extremists tarnish everybody."
The liberals outnumber the fundamentalists, says Walid Phares, an associate professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. Phares, a Maronite Christian from Lebanon and leading South Florida expert on the Middle East, estimates that about fifteen percent of Muslims in the United States are fundamentalist and that another twenty percent lean in that direction. The rest, a strong 65-percent majority, are moderate to liberal. The fundamentalist "activists," however, have dominated the public face of Islam in America. "While moderates were out there working -- as everything from top engineers to 7-Eleven managers -- the fundamentalists were focusing on the religious institutions," Phares says. "The fundamentalists have been busy taking over the religion."
Mohamed agrees with that assessment and calls for all moderates to publicly denounce the radical wing of their religion. But discerning the line between those with spiritual fervor and those who may plan to commit political violence isn't easy. "You have three kinds of people: You have those Palestinians with emotions, you have orthodox conservative Muslims, and you have people like al Qaeda," Mohamed says. "And I am myself confused with the lines between them. I just don't know. The more you get into the extremism thing, the more political it gets. It is raw politics."
Mahdi says he wants to meet with Mohamed but doesn't want to discuss their differences publicly. Asked whether he disagrees with Mohamed's liberalism, Mahdi pauses for two beats before saying, "Well, I'm sure I have said some things [Mohamed] doesn't agree with as well. It is not necessarily a conflict. As Muslims we have to be aware what we say ... because when we speak, we are speaking for the Muslim community."
Mahdi concurs it is not a personal conflict. "I think all of us need to be concerned about the perception we give the public about Islam while keeping true to the tenets of our religion," he says.
Mohamed, however, refuses to meet with Mahdi, saying he has nothing to discuss. "Have you ever heard the old saying, 'Never touch trouble until trouble touches you'?" Mohamed asks. "Well, I believe in that."


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Tuscan Villas Table And Italian FocacciaJacqueline March 30, 2011
Chocolat - French for Chocolate. I adored chocolate from a young age when I had to sneak in the cupboard to find where my mother had hidden the Nestle's Chocolate Chips. Having read about the famous chocolat shoppes in Paris, when I finally got there I was determined to try a chocolate from every Paris shoppe. I invite you to share my adventures in creating, in travel, and in life.
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- AnonymousMarch 30, 2011 at 3:03 PM
What a beautiful job you did decorating. The condos look lovely. This recipe sounds amazing.ReplyDelete
Great job decorating! That focaccia looks delicious and is something I'll have to try.ReplyDelete
Yummy. I can taste the focaccia just reading your post. This bread looks easy enough for even ME to make. I'm going to try it!ReplyDelete
Jackie you are amazing! I love this bread. I have made it. It is YUMMY!ReplyDelete
PS I am loving bread week.ReplyDelete
What a great Focacia bread !! love it.....have a nice day Jackie.....love Ria....xxx...ReplyDelete
What a lovely job you did on the condo. I like the use of what looks to be taupe and the colors in the kitchen cabinet wood.ReplyDelete
The bread looks delicious....thanks for sharing.
Loved this post..such pretty dishes and love that flatware. Great decorating and bread making too...good job! :DReplyDelete
Beautiful work...on both the decor and bread!ReplyDelete
I made your breadsticks from yesterday's post with our whole wheat flour. Amazing! Can't wait to serve them for dinner tonight!
You look great:) The dishes and the bread Not to mention the interiors:)ReplyDelete
I have made your recipe of foccacia countless times and it is a favorite of our family. Love the decorating too and the tablescaping. That flatware is so timeless. JoniReplyDelete
Focaccia is a favorite around here. Thanks for the recipe.ReplyDelete
The model looks great. What a fun project! ~ Sarah
Your foccacia looks wonderful but the tablescape even more so. Love the dishes. You did such a good job on the condo model. I eamiled you about my tableware storage....ChristineReplyDelete
How fun to get to decorate the model! Your barscape is wonderful -- love all the textures and soft colors you included. I adore foccacia -- yours sounds divine!ReplyDelete
Jacqueline! Before I get to the tablescape, let me say that you did a super job on those models. Love them! AND you are gorgeous. Great pic, my dear. The focaccia looks divine, and your place setting is great looking... love each layer, especially those neat chargers.ReplyDelete
Hope you are doing well and that all is well in your world.
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Everything beautiful, but that artichoke looks overcooked!ReplyDelete
I don't know which I am craving more... the dishes or the focaccia! You did a beautiful job on both!ReplyDelete
What a gift you have! You can drop in in Texas any day you like! Love your chargers!!! Oh those are just fabulous. I can see those for so many occasions. I've really enjoyed bread week and have saved those recipes to try.. one a weekend. First have to get a new knob for my le crueset! Thank you so much for sharing that with us. I've loved all the tips. Your living room in the show home would make me want to make it my own!ReplyDelete
Okay, love the focaccia, but wow, love the interior of that model. I want to see every corner!!ReplyDelete
I have to tell you I don't think there is one thing you cannot do! Tuscan Villa is just beautiful and the foccacia looks light as air. I'm copying every recipe you've posted this week... love them all!ReplyDelete
How fun to decorate the model Jacqueline, it looks amazing! This bread would be fun to make, nice and easy for the first time yeast novice too:@)ReplyDelete
Beautiful job on the decorating and the bread! We love foccacia bread. All those little nooks and crannies! I use it as a pizza crust and layer cheese, then sauce, toppings next and more cheese. The kids just love it! Thanks for sharing your recipe! I am totally loving this bread week!ReplyDelete
That condo looks absolutely amazing! I have the white plates which I love, but now I want other colored ones you used too! Wonderful job!ReplyDelete
I knew you had wonderful decorating talents and I can't wait to see more!ReplyDelete
Delicious focaccia recipe!
Love your decorating! And thank you for sharing your foccacia bread recipe - it looks pretty yummy! Mrs. SReplyDelete
Wow, you are one talented lady...not only a decorator, but obviously a great baker...that focaccia looks picture perfect!ReplyDelete
Can I please come and live with you? The decorating is to die for and I can honestly smell the bread right now! Oh my, it looks delish!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see the rest of this decorating job ~ I know it's fab.
What a delightful project. Your choices look perfect with the finishes in the kitchen. Thank you for sharing your wonderful vignettes. Cherry KayReplyDelete
What a lovely job you've done with this. Thanks for the tour!ReplyDelete
I love your blog! You always have such great ideas!!!ReplyDelete
The focaccia recipe looks yummy & the table setting is darling!
Gorgeous...the bread, the tablescape and the townhouse! Love the leopardprint chairs.ReplyDelete
Wow, that focaccia looks so fluffy and must have been really delicious with all those herbs. I've been looking for a great focaccia recipe and it looks like I've found it.ReplyDelete
*drool* Excuse me while I look for a napkin to wipe off my chin! Fantastic looking bread to go with your fantastic looking design!! I love the soft colors you picked for those beautiful spaces. Lots of textures, too.ReplyDelete
This is an all around yummy post!
I've made Lahey's artisanal bread before & yours turned out GREAT!! If I didn't have "gluten intolerant" visitors coming this week, I'd do some today, but I hate to tempt them. ;-)
Now THIS I will try right away! I love the herbs, the look of it and I will absolutely report back! ;)ReplyDelete
Your decorating makes me want to run away from home (with kids and hubby in tow) to the villa. I love what you did with it.ReplyDelete
Just before lunch is the wrong time to read this post. I can almost smell that bread, I love focaccia bread...yum.ReplyDelete
What a fun job to decorate the model. The tablescape is gorgeous and what a pretty place to live. I would think they would be selling like crazy!
I am going to have to try the bread recipes on here. :) Your table is beautiful and I love the artichoke in the bowl.ReplyDelete
Your decorating skills are stunning! I just love the cream and green setting you have created with the Tuscan feel. I see you are also quite a baker. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
What a beautiful place setting. I love the colors. Your focaccia is "to die for". Oh my! I'm going crazy over all of this bread!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous!!! My husband and I go on the Spring Parade of Homes every year here in the Kansas City, MO area, and we love to see well-decorated entries like this one! You did a marvelous job, and the bread looks divine! Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
I tried to comment last night but my computer wouldn't let me. I'll quietly post today so as not to wake the sleeping giant.ReplyDelete
Love your model home projects. You are very gifted! The table is up to your usual perfection. I just love your style.
And we won't even mention the bread.
Not only are you are most talented decorator of interiors but you can cook, too!! The day talents were handed out, you were certainly blessed! The interior of the condo is lovely and so inviting to people walking through. You gave it a touch that has a warm homey feeling and that is difficult to do with a model, I think. Love your post today!!ReplyDelete
SOooo pretty! I love those plates and that food looks super yummy! When's dinner?ReplyDelete
Jacqueline, You are such a talented lady! I am really impressed with your decor, tablescaping and cooking. You do have a wonderful blog,too, dear sweet lady!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Beth
The focaccia looks really delicious! Love all the herbs you used.ReplyDelete
Loved this bread! Thank you so much.ReplyDelete
May I have a seat on the leopard print chair in the living room? And I'd be happy to sample the focaccia ;o) Love it with all those nice herbs!ReplyDelete
Everyone is smitten with it! I will definitely do it again!ReplyDelete
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Love your layered dishes~ especially your charger! What a wonderful job you've done on the model too!ReplyDelete
I'm salivating over your focaccia!
Hi Jacqueline~ What a gorgeous table- gorgeous condo and delicious looking bread!! I will have to try this- hubby is Italian and focaccia bread is a favorite! Thanks for sharing the recipe and for sharing this beautiful post at FNF! :)ReplyDelete
This is all fabulous! I love the table. The chargers are wonderful. You have done a beautiful job with the town home and the bread looks amazing! What a wonderful post. Thanks for linking up at HSH!
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What is happiness doing to your wallet? To your brain? To your body? Watch Newsroom on CNN TV this week to find out. Zain Verjee asks why we are hearing the words "happiness" and "well-being" more than ever? Newsroom airs weekdays at 1100 CET.
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Paul J. Zak: I spent a decade trying understand why humans are usually moral
His new book reports how brain chemical oxytocin motivates moral behaviors
He also tests Aristotle's theory that practicing virtue made one happy
The logical step was to see if I could hack the happiness molecule, he writes
Paul J. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity.
Evolution does not promote happiness. Most creatures live on the edge of survival and do whatever it takes to get through another day. Yet, many human beings seek to be, and often are, happy. How did that happen?
I spent a decade running neuroscience experiments to understand why humans are, much of the time, moral. We expect others to be honest, trustworthy, and kind and are outraged when they are not. As I report in my recent book The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity, my experiments showed that a then largely-ignored brain chemical in humans, oxytocin, motivates moral behaviors. Oxytocin does this by producing the feeling of empathy: When we are emotionally connected to others we tend to treat them well. My studies showed this was true even between complete strangers.
Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle claimed that morality comes from being in community with others. My experiments confirm this. Aristotle also argued that practicing virtue made one happy. I decided to put this to the test.
I found that individuals who release the most oxytocin – I call them "oxytocin-adepts" – were more satisfied with their lives compared to those who release less oxytocin. Why? They had better relationships of all types: Romantic, friendships, family, and they even shared more money with strangers in laboratory experiments. The moral molecule morphed in the happy molecule. Happiness largely comes from other people for social creatures like us.
The logic step was to see if I could hack the happiness molecule.
There is evidence in animals that repeated release of oxytocin biases the brain to release it more easily. In other words, it might be possible to become and oxytocin-adept.
I began by refusing to shake hands. My experiments had shown that touch causes the release of oxytocin, so I replaced the handshake with a hug. Yes, for everyone, even on a first meeting. I found that after an embrace people opened up and connected to me much better than before I started this practice.
My second hack was spending an extra second looking at people's faces and then telling them what I saw. "Hi Laura, you look sad today, are you OK?" Or, "Hi Jorge, you really look happy, tell me what you've been doing?" People appreciated my focus on how they felt and conversations went from the superficial to what really mattered. I was practicing empathy.
My third hack was the most difficult. Oxytocin is sometimes called the "love chemical" because it sustains bonds between romantic partners and between parents and children. I decided to tell my friends and colleagues that I loved them. The response was overwhelming. Everyone lit up, some cried, everyone returned the love in words and deeds. I even earned the nickname "Dr. Love."
Did I really hack the happiness molecule? I certainly feel much more connected to those around me, more open to emotional experiences, and, well, happier. I recently turned 50 and I was amazed when I had four surprise birthday parties on the same day.
I think my brain hacks have made me a better friend, father, and colleague.
Rich social networks extend life and improve health, so you might want to try to hack your oxytocin, too.
Here's your to-do list: Give eight hugs a day, focus on how those around you feel, and yes, use the "L" word when you can. If you find these difficult, start using them on a dog. My experiments have shown dogs are better oxytocin stimulators than other pets, and better stress-reducers, too.
One more suggestion: Last year I decided to end every conversation with the word "service," as in, "I am at your service." If I'm in a meeting, the person I'm with wants something from me. My new hack is to give others what they want generously whenever possible. Nearly everyone is surprised and pleased by this and I typically get back much more than I have offered.
I'm an introvert who learned to revel in community. If you can hack the happiness molecule like I have, then I've been of service. And that makes me happy.
READ: Are people without kids happier? New studies offer mixed picture
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READ: Happiness at work: Why money isn't the only thing that matters
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul J. Zak.


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The diet industry is abuzz with the smashing success of the miraculous roadkill diet!
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"It's all detailed in my book, A Diet to Die For: The Roadkill Revolutions." explains Garfield, who holds himself out as proof of his diet plan's effectiveness.
The 5-foot-7 Garfield once weighed a hefty 214 pounds, but after trying unsuccessfully to drop the pounds with a variety of fad diets ranging from the Grapefruit Diet to the Peruvian Air Force Diet. Here's Mr. Garfield:
Garfield literally ran into the roadkill idea during a rainy night drive.
"I was out driving, looking for something to eat. I was sick of eating the same old stuff. I was tired of junk food, but I didn't want to eat salads either. I needed something natural that also tased good.
"Just hten, something bolted out in front of me and hit my car."
When I drove back into the garage I found a dead coyote tangled up in my bumper and grill and it was like a light went of in my head."
After scavenging two possums, three snakes and two-and-a-half raccoons, Garfield began a diet that eventually dropped his weight by 75 pounds in three months.
"There's plenty of protein in roadkill. It's free, it's tasty and the meat is generally lean and instantly tenderized by the vehicle wheels and sudden impact."
Garfield also touted the variety of his smashing diet plan. "You never know what you're going to find – a lot of exercise and energy goes into the hunt," he says.
"In one day alone I covered a 75-mile radius of interstates and rural roads and found four different mammals, three birds – which make nifty low-cal appetizers – and a copule of turtles, which made great soup. The shells were already cracked and the meat nearly pureed!"
Garfield has some roadkill rules to remember while scavenging: If you kill it, you know it's fresh, but whenever you see one that someone else has carelessly ignored, smell it.
If you aren't immediately sickened by the odor, odds are it's safe to eat.
Be sure to carry a sharp hacksaw in your car for larger kills and assorted sizes of plastic bags for clean storage when you're on the road.
Zip-Lock Freezer Bags are ideal for small animals and chunks of larger animals.
Jumbo trash bags are good for large animals – and all of them help prevent messy leaks.
Here's a sample of a three-day diet plan from A Diet to Die For: The Roadkill Revolution by nutrition and diet expert Newton Garfield.
Day 1. Breakfast: 3.5 ox broiled raccoon haunch. 1 cup black coffee, toast with sparrow pate. Lunch: Squirrel noodle salad. Dinner: 4 oz. lightly fried breast of coyote or similar wild game such as skunk.
Day 2. Breakfast: One scrambled egg white with 2 oz. armadillo brains, 1 cup roadside weeds and herbal tea. Lunch: 8 oz possum soup, 3 oz broiled dog filet. Dinner: 6 oz. baked deer or prairie dog.
Day 3. Breakfast. 3 oz. broiled roadrunner. Black coffee. Lunch: 4 oz cold spicy chipmunk or cat salad. Dinner: 6 oz., pan-fried "roadside oysters" – testicles taken from roadkill such as deer, cow or large dogs.


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