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Offline Hyades

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Americn Muslim Demography
« on: September 15, 2009, 06:46:57 AM »
Intersting statistics about Pisslam and it's worshippers in the USA:

8 Million Muslims in North America
    *  7 million in the U.S.; 1 million in Canada.
    * Larger than Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland & Sweden.
    * Annual growth rate of 6% versus 0.9% for total U.S.2
    * Interaction between Indigenous and Immigrant Muslims is limited.
    * Same size community as Hispanics 25 years ago.


American Muslims are Younger

    * 67% of adult American Muslims are under 40 years old
    * 67% of the adult American population is over 40 years old

Market Analysis of American Muslims

    * A sizable market with 8 million people
    * 2.3 million households in North America
    * Growing at 6% annual growth rate.
    * Will double to 16 million by 2014.

    * Bigger than Norway, Finland, Denmark or Sweden.
    * Growth Factors: birth rates, conversions & immigration.
    * 25% larger family size than U.S. average.

   
      Mosques in the United States: 1,209



    *American Muslims associated with a mosque: 2 million

    *Increase in number of mosques since 1994: 25 percent

    *Proportion of mosques founded since 1980: 62 percent

    *Average number of Muslims associated with each mosque in the United States: 1,625

    *U.S. mosque participants who are converts: 30 percent

    *American Muslims who "strongly agree" that they should participate in American institutions and the political process: 70 percent

    *U.S. mosques attended by a single ethnic group: 7 percent

    *U.S. mosques that have some Asian, African-American, and Arab members: nearly 90 percent

    *Ethnic origins of regular participants in U.S. mosques:
          South Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Afghani) = 33 percent
          African-America = 30 percent
          Arab = 25 percent
          Sub-Saharan African = 3.4 percent
          European (Bosnian, Tartar, Kosovar, etc.) = 2.1 percent
          White American = 1.6 percent
          Southeast Asian ( Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino) = 1.3 percent
          Caribbean = 1.2 percent
          Turkish = 1.1 percent
          Iranian = 0.7 percent
          Hispanic/Latino = 0.6 percent
       
    *U.S. mosques that feel they strictly follow the Koran and Sunnah: more than 90 percent

    *U.S. mosques that feel the Koran should be interpreted with consideration of its purposes and modern circumstances: 71 percent

    *U.S. mosques that provide some assistance to the needy: nearly 70 percent

    *U.S. mosques with a full-time school: more than 20 percent

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Offline The One and Only Mo

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Re: Americn Muslim Demography
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2009, 08:14:29 AM »
WE'RE SCREWED

EDIT: Keep it clean.
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Re: Americn Muslim Demography
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2009, 01:41:21 PM »
Damnation...

The number of churches in S. Arab must be larger than the number of mosques in America.
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