You may be surprised to learn that in 2011, 12 percent of all converts to Islam in the United States were Latino. That’s double the rate of a decade ago. Brooke Binkowski is a freelance reporter at the Fronteras Desk.
Amir Carr (left) and imam Muhanna Jamaleddin (right) inside Masjid al-Islam, one of two new mosques in Tijuana, Mexico.