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[107]: 31–32 Soon after, African-American Muslim groups began to form: the Moorish Science Temple was established in Chicago in 1925, and the Nation of Islam formed in 1930. [107]: 34–36 According to an article in 2001, 25,000 Americans convert to Islam per year. [108]
The American Shia Muslim community are from different parts of the world such as South Asia, Europe, Middle East, and East Africa. [16] [17] The American Shia Muslim community have many activities and have founded several organization such as the Islamic Center of America and North America Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities Organization ...
“Being a fourth-generation American, I don’t see a juxtaposition between being a Muslim and being American. I’ve always been a little different — I’m also Mexican American. All my life I’ve only fit in 90 percent, so it’s just kind of a different 90 percent between am I American or am I Muslim.”
A report titled 100 Years of Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, director of media relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, describes what some in the Arab-American community call "the three B syndrome": "Arabs in TV and movies are portrayed as either bombers, belly dancers, or billionaires" a ...
Many slaves brought from Africa to the Western Hemisphere were Muslims, [80] and the early 20th century saw the rise of distinct Islamic religious and political movements within the African-American community in the United States, [81] such as Darul Islam, [80] the Islamic Party of North America, [80] the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB ...
African-American Muslims account for over 20% of American Muslims. [2] They represent one of the larger Muslim populations of the United States as there is no ethnic group that makes up the majority of American Muslims. [3] They mostly belong to the Sunni sect, but smaller Shia and Nation of Islam minorities also exist.
Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century (Greenwood, 2012). Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, 2012). Cainkar, Louis A. Homeland insecurity: the Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11 (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009). Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category includes articles of people who are Muslim (followers of the religion of Islam ) in the United States .