attached mail follows:
Islam in the U.S. 2001
From,
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/islam/fact2.htm
Fact Sheet: Islam in the United States
Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in the U.S. By the year
2010,
America's Muslim population is expected to surpass the Jewish
population,
making Islam the country's second-largest faith after Christianity.
The American Muslim community is a mosaic of cultures, its members
having
come from all of the five major continents. In fact, a recent survey
showed
that most Muslims are immigrants -- 77.6% versus 22.4% U.S. born.
This same survey indicated that the ethnic origins of the Muslim
community
are as follows:
26.2% Middle East (Arab)
24.7% South Asia
23.8% African American
11.6% Other
10.3% Middle East (Not Arab)
6.4% East Asia
While there are no official population figures for religious affiliation
in
the United States, experts estimate that there are approximately six
million
American Muslims. Other estimates range from four to eight million.
The Britannica Book of the Year estimated that, in mid-2000, there were
4,175,000 Muslims in the United States, 1,650,000 of whom are African
American in origin. An average of 17,500 African Americans converted to
Islam each year between 1990 and 1995.
The earliest group of Muslims to arrive in America in significant
numbers
came from West Africa from 1530 to 1851, because of the slave trade.
They
comprised an estimated 14% to 20% of the hundreds of thousands of West
Africans forcibly removed from their homelands.
The next sizable number of Muslims immigrated to the United States
during
the early 20th century. They came from Lebanon, Syria and other
countries
across the Ottoman Empire.
The post-World War II era, during the 1960s and '70s, saw the third
substantial wave of immigrants from all parts of the Islamic world. This
wave included large numbers of Muslims who came to study at American
universities.
Approximately a third of American Muslims live on the East Coast
(32.2%),
25.3% live in the South, 24.3% in the Central/Great Lakes Region, and
18.2%
in the West.
There are nearly 2000 mosques nationwide as well as numerous Islamic day
schools and Sunday and weekend schools.
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