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Muslim population of the USA?
Posted on 11/08/2004 7:34:28 AM PST by BritishBulldog
I was wondering how many muslims live in America and how quickly the population there is growing?
I was recently surprised to read that here in the UK, under two percent of the population is Muslim (I thought it was much higher). France, I understand has about 5% presently (but it is growing quickly)
I was wondering how many Muslims lived in the USA and how the population there is growing?
Also, in the UK, I am starting to notice that Muslims are starting to assimilate into society a bit more (while still maintaining there own customs & traditions). The Jews and the Hindus have done this more successfully and quickly but I have noticed (first hand) that many Moslems are becoming more Anglicised. I wondered if anyone has noticed the same thing in the US?
(NB, This is not a wind-up thread, I am genuinely interested)
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To: BritishBulldog
And how many of them came to it thru incarceration?
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:38:03 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Proud Member of FreeRepublic 's "Pyjama-Hadeen")
To: BritishBulldog
I don't know. But I have read that there are more Muslims than Jews here.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:38:04 AM PST
by
twigs
To: BritishBulldog
"I was wondering how many muslims live in America and how quickly the population there is growing?"
Too many and too fast.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:38:08 AM PST
by
Max Combined
(There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.)
To: BritishBulldog
How many does it take to bring down an office tower?
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:39:07 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
("The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it." Horatio Seymour)
To: BritishBulldog
Because the U. S. Census does not collect information on religious affiliation of residents in the nation, there are no exact figures on the number of Muslims in the country. According to a national poll conducted in 2001, known as the American Religious Identity Survey, approximately 1,104,000 adult Muslims reside in the United States.
National Muslim organizations put the total number of all Muslims in the nation at about seven million, based on a survey that determined that two million Muslims regularly attend weekly Friday prayer services, and stipulated that the majority of Muslims do not attend such services.
The 2000 Britannica Book of the Year estimate for 2000 states the number as 4,132,000. Whatever the exact number, the Muslim population in North America is characterized by its diversity.
Some 80 nations are represented in the mosque communities of the United States, including a variety of traditions, practices, doctrines, and beliefs. Approximately 24 percent of American Muslims are African Americans according to the American Muslim Councils Zogby poll conducted in 2000.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:39:55 AM PST
by
Dallas59
("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
To: twigs
"I don't know. But I have read that there are more Muslims than Jews here."
Same here, which astonished me. Apparantly there are only about 350,000 Jews in the UK.
I seem to know about half of them!
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:40:20 AM PST
by
BritishBulldog
(New Labour - Putting the "National" back into "Socialist")
To: BritishBulldog
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:40:32 AM PST
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: BritishBulldog
The ideal number of Muslims in a free USA is zero.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:43:19 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(The Era of Old Media is over! Long live the Pajamasphere!)
To: Dallas59
Most likely what you cite includes Nation of Islam -- which is cooking the books.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:45:32 AM PST
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: BritishBulldog
Funny you should ask. The following map is two years old and more Mosque's have sprung up across the United States since then:
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:45:38 AM PST
by
SheLion
(President Bush received MORE votes ever in the period of History. The Rats need to get over it.)
To: BritishBulldog
Huntsville, Texas is where most of the prisons in Texas are located. There are no mosques here but we support Moslems preachers with tax money to corrupt the prisoners.
They go after the ones that are most violent.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:45:48 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Dan Rather called Saddam "Mister President and President Bush "bush")
To: BritishBulldog
a sheet over an arab, muslim?
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:46:33 AM PST
by
ronnied
(big red)
To: Baynative
"During the Homeland Security discussions I heard a comment that sleeper cells and militant Muslims here could number over 10,000.
...and they want you and your children DEAD!"
What I find concerning is that, if you take the world population of Moslems at about 1 billion (which is probably low). Assume that most of them are peace loving people who just want to get on with their lives but that 1 in 1000 is a fundamentalist nutter, that gives you one million fundamentalist nutters.
Then if you assume that 10% of those nutters have whatever it takes to become terrorists rather than just rabble, they could, at least in theory, raise an army of 100,000 fruit cakes all seeking death in the name of God.
Scary.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:47:33 AM PST
by
BritishBulldog
(New Labour - Putting the "National" back into "Socialist")
To: BritishBulldog
There are over 1,200 Somali's in southern Maine alone. Gov Baldacci and Rep. Tom Allen both Rats, brought them into this state. Most are on welfare.
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:49:00 AM PST
by
SheLion
(President Bush received MORE votes ever in the period of History. The Rats need to get over it.)
To: Dallas59
According to a national poll conducted in 2001, known as the American Religious Identity Survey, approximately 1,104,000 adult Muslims reside in the United States.1,104,000 too many.
To: Dallas59
National Muslim organizations put the total number of all Muslims in the nation at about seven million.How many are legal residents?
To: BritishBulldog
And thousands are crossing the border every NIGHT and they aren't all Mexican's. The Border Patrol finds the prayers rugs and the book of the Karan a lot, that is dropped in haste to get into the United States.
I saw a documentary on Fox News about this last year. These people HAVE to be going somewhere and what better shelter then a United States based Mosque?
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posted on
11/08/2004 7:51:11 AM PST
by
SheLion
(President Bush received MORE votes ever in the period of History. The Rats need to get over it.)
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