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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]
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.
Pages in category "Islamic organizations based in the United States" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It’s a greater battle between broader America, of how tolerant and open-minded they will be about minorities, about American values, about recognizing how true they want to be to the American values of openness and freedom for all. This really isn’t that much about 2 percent of Americans. It’s actually for the 98 percent of Americans.
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]
In the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case, the United States Department of Justice named ISNA, along with Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), as an unindicted co-conspirator and one of a number of "entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood."
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 portrays itself as the voice of mainstream, moderate Islam on Capitol Hill and in political arenas throughout the United States.
The term "messengers" in Islam refers to a group of people assigned to special missions by God to guide humankind. In Ahmadiyya in particular, the term amalgamated with "Jazz" embodied a form of an American symbolism of the democratic promise of Islam's universalism. Initially an all Muslim group, the group attracted a large number of jazz ...