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In a 2007 survey titled Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream, the Pew Research Center found Muslim Americans to be "largely integrated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world." [223]
Shia Muslims comprise 15-20% of Muslims in the Americas; [13] which is nearly 786,000 [14] to 2.500.000 persons in the U.S. [15] Shia Muslims are situated on United States. 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 following animated videos depict the experiences of nine Muslim Americans from across the country who differ in heritage, age, gender and occupation. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, these Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life. By Emily Kassie. April 6, 2015
A 2011 study conducted by the Pew Research Center showed that Latino Muslims accounted for an estimated 6 percent out of the Muslims living in the U.S. [18] In 2015, the Pew Research Center estimated that there were about 3.3 million Muslims in the U.S. [19] A previous Pew Research study of Muslim Americans in 2007 estimated that 10% of native ...
African-American Muslims constitute 20% of the total U.S. Muslim population. [18] [19] Despite this, 2% of Black Americans are Muslim (most adhere to various sects of Christianity, particularly Protestantism). [20] The majority are Sunni Muslims; a substantial proportion of these identify under the community of W. Deen Mohammed.
Within the past three years, there has been a major numerical shift in how American society perceives Muslims. Americans believe Muslims face the most discrimination in the US, new survey says ...
The percentage of Arab Americans who are Muslim has increased in recent years because most new Arab immigrants tend to be Muslim. In the past 10 years, most Arab ...
One group of Americans heavily impacted by the attacks were Muslim Americans. ... September 11, 2001 is a day many Americans will never forget. The largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil claimed ...