Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
English: The map above shows the estimated proportion of Americans who are Muslim in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico according to the results of the 2020 U.S. Religion Census.
Immigration to the United States post-1965 favored those deemed to have specialized educational and skills, thus impacting the socio-economic makeup of American Muslims. [9] The United States began seeing Muslim immigrants arrive in the late 20th century as refugees due to such reasons as political unrest, war, and famine. [9]
10 21 Chicago: 78 71 16 11 8 34 <1 7 22 Minneapolis: 77 70 15 27 4 21 1 5 23 Detroit: 76 67 20 14 15 16 <1 8 24 New York City: 76 59 9 8 6 33 <1 16 24 Philadelphia: 76 68 13 17 11 26 <1 8 24 Washington, D.C. 76 65 14 15 12 19 1 10 24 Los Angeles: 75 65 18 9 3 32 <1 9 25 Riverside, Calif. 75 71 30 10 3 22 3 4 25 Phoenix: 74 66 25 11 1 21 6 7 26 ...
The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
Islam in America effectively began with the arrival of African slaves. It is estimated that about 10% of African slaves transported to the United States were Muslim. [138] Most, however, became Christians, and the United States did not have a significant Muslim population until the arrival of immigrants from Arab and East Asian Muslim areas. [139]