Young American Muslim preachers achieve rock-star-like celebrity status

Evidence

After the prayer, middle-aged men crowded around him as if he were a rock star, handing out their business cards and asking him to lecture at their masajid in the future. Rami stood beside him, and I approached, tapping him on his shoulder. We hugged a hello. Rami had grown a woolly beard. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 899

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religious clerics function as television celebrities in Pakistani media — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 962