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Islam in the Americas is a minority religion in all of the countries and territories of the Americas. Approximately 1% of North America population are Muslims , and 0.1% of Latin America and Caribbean population are Muslims.
The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the United States largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, originally established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. CAIR presents itself as representing mainstream, moderate Islam, and has condemned acts of terrorism and has been working in collaboration ...
According to some experts, [140] Islam later gained a higher profile through the Nation of Islam, a religious group that appealed to black Americans after the 1940s; its prominent converts included Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. [141] [142] The first Muslim elected to Congress was Keith Ellison in 2006, [143] followed by André Carson in 2008. [144]
There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants. Currently there are people arguing for our civil rights, and we’re also seeing those who want to smear our entire faith and say that Islam is an inherently violent religion. These are exciting times to be an American Muslim, that’s for sure.
A Pew Center study in 2016 found that Muslims have the highest number of adherents under the age of 15 (34% of the total Muslim population) of any major religion, while only 7% are aged 60+ (the smallest percentage of any major religion). According to the same study, Muslims have the highest fertility rates (3.1) of any major religious group. [114]
Between 1990 and 2000 the Arab American population increased by an estimated 30 percent. [29] Lebanese are the largest group of Arab Americans in every state except for New Jersey, where Egyptians make up the largest nationality. [28] 80 percent of Arabs living in the United States are citizens. [30]
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 ...
Tarek Fatah and other MCC board members at anti-war and anti-Zionist demonstration in Toronto related with the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.. Formed in December 2001, the Muslim Canadian Congress was organized to provide a voice to Muslims who support a "progressive, liberal, pluralistic, democratic, and secular society where everyone has the freedom of religion."