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In 2013, it reportedly became the first Muslim-majority city in the U.S. [7] [8] In 2015, Hamtramck became the first city to have a Muslim-majority city council in the history of the United States, with four of the six council members being Muslim.
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.07%). [1] The Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies in its 2020 US Religion census estimated that 1.34% (or 4,453,908) of the population of the United States are Muslim. [2] In 2017, twenty states, mostly in the South ...
Mayor Amer Ghalib endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, putting him and the U.S.' only Muslim-majority town of Hamtramck, Michigan, in the spotlight.
In 2013 the city council of Hamtramck became the first in the U.S. that was Muslim majority. [6] [7] By 2015 many Muslim women in the Detroit area asked to be able to wear hijab in public places and in any identification photographs. Several municipalities are having to determine how to deal with producing identification photographs of Muslim ...
“This City Council truly represents all the elements of Hamtramck history, whether they are Arabs, South Asian or European descendants,” one expert said. Country's first all-Muslim city ...
A 2018 study estimated that there are over 750,000 Muslims living in New York City, the largest population of Muslimsby city in the United States. Approximately 9% of New York City residents are Muslim, constituting 22.3% of American Muslims, with 1.5 million Muslims in the greater New York metropolitan area, representing the largest ...
The mayor of a Muslim-majority city in Michigan says he is endorsing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, calling the former commander-in-chief, “the right choice for this critical time."
List of largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries. This is a list of the largest cities in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states, based on the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report (2010 population estimates from the report's 2007 revision). [ 1 ] Indonesia. Pakistan. Bangladesh. Egypt.