OK, for the second week of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2026, Mark’s Text Terminal offers as its Weekly Text this reading on Sufism and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Sufism, as you may know, is a mystical sect of Islam.
Are you aware that there are as many as 73 sects in Islam? And that there are a group of Muslims known as “non-denominational Muslims?” We Americans tend to think of Islam as homogenous–and, alas, in the view of far too many people in the United States, sinister.
It behooves us to know, understand, and respect our neighbors.
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