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Muslim movement accepts once-taboo causes

American Muslim Omar Akersim's books the Progressive Muslim is viewed next to The Quran, the Muslim holy book at his home in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Nearly 40 percent of the estimated 2.75 million Muslims in the U.S. are American-born and the number is growing, with the Muslim population skewing younger than the U.S. population at large, according to a 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay.

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