What proportion of the population are Muslims in the United States?

How many Muslims are there in the United States? Until now, basically no one knew. The U.S. Census is afraid to ask questions about religion. It is difficult to give a number for many other reasons, the first of which is how to define who is a Muslim: does this include non-standard believers like Louis Farrakhan and Druze? The uncertainty has produced some wildly divergent numbers. A large census in 1990 counted 1.3 million Muslims. In 1998, a Pakistani newspaper put the figure at 12 million. Even the usually authoritative yearbooks of the churches in the United States and Canada give numbers that found 527,000 American Muslims in 1996, and in 1998 there were six times as many as 1996 (33 million). Because they needed census figures, the Muslim organization came up with what they admitted was an "estimate" of 6 million people. This year they decided to increase the number to 7 million. These figures are widely quoted (even by the author himself), so they acquire an air of authority. But a good reputation cannot turn speculation into fact. The problem is widespread; religious organizations often seek to increase their membership in order to increase their voice in the public sphere. Fortunately, the fog of imprecision was finally cleared last week with the publication of two authoritative studies by highly respected demographers. (Each study relied on the respondents' own religious self-identification.) Interestingly, they came up with similar numbers, which were much smaller than past guesses. The American Religious Identity Survey was a 2001 poll of more than 50,000 people conducted by the Research Center of the City University of New York. It was found that the entire American Muslim population was approximately 1.8 million. Meanwhile, Tom Smith of the University of Chicago re-examined previous national surveys and found (in a study funded by the American Jewish Society) that the best estimate put the number of Muslims in the United States in 2000 at 1,886,000. (With a hint to Islamist groups, he conceded that the number should be as high as 2,814,000.) In other words, two authoritative studies conducted by China found that there are fewer than 2 million Muslims in the United States—smaller than previously thought. one third. To this, radical Islamist groups in Washington (widely but incorrectly seen as representing American Muslims) responded with prophetic hyperbole. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) fiercely attacked Smith's report as an attempt to "discourage Muslim political participation." The American Muslim Council (AMC) accused Smith of trying to "deny the existence of 4.5 million American Muslims" on irrelevant matters and accused him of "tearing the heart of America." The AMC also interestingly asserts that its own estimate of "more than 7 million" Muslims is based on data from the 2000 Census - wrongly assuming that the census asks questions about religion. oh! It was the same AMC that in 1992 pressured a researcher, Fareed Nu'man, to find 6 million Muslims in the country; Nu'man later confirmed his count of only 3 million and refused to exaggerate his numbers. Over 5 million and was fired from AMC. Why does the radical Islamist lobby insist there are 6-7 million Muslims? Because large numbers, even if they are counterfeit, can they be increased? Find ways and gaps to improve yourself. For example, if you convince the Communist Party that the number of Muslims is 8 million, it will mean that its chairman can urgently request "a meeting with [Muslim] leaders". This matter will happen when the number of Muslims becomes much smaller. It becomes less important. Knowing the true number of Muslims would directly impede two ongoing efforts by radical Islamist groups: one (promoted by The Minaret magazine) to get Americans to admit that they were partly responsible for the atrocities of September 11; the other (in CAIR led by the United States) to prevent U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. The long-term implications will be even greater. Report from Washington: According to data provided by a professional religious forum in the United States, the world's Muslim population has reached 1.57 billion, accounting for a quarter of the world's total population, most of which live in Asia. On Thursday, October 8, 2009, the American media reported data provided by the Forum on People's Lives and Religions. This data surprised many people about the population of Muslims in the world. The forum team spent three years surveying and analyzing 232 countries and regions and pointed out that densely populated areas of Muslims are concentrated in the Middle East, and most Muslims live in Asia, accounting for about 60% of the world's Muslim population. 20% of Muslims live in the Middle East and North Africa. 15% live south of the Sahara Desert, 2.4% live in Europe, and 0.3% live in the Americas. There are about 317 million Muslims distributed in 5 countries in the world where Muslims are a minority. According to reports, there are 161 million Muslims in India, 28 million in Ethiopia, 22 million in China, 16 million in Russia, and Tanzania. 13 million.

The report also pointed out that two-thirds of Muslims live in 10 countries, including six countries in Asia, namely Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Iran, and Turkey; and four countries in Africa, namely Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and Nigeria. Hindu-majority India has the largest Muslim population outside Indonesia and Pakistan, and is twice as populous as Egypt, the most populous Arab country.

China’s Muslim population exceeds the total population of Syria, Germany’s Muslim population exceeds the total population of Lebanon, and Russia’s Muslim population exceeds the combined populations of Jordan and Libya. The report also said: The Muslim population of Ethiopia is equal to the population of Afghanistan. About two-thirds of Muslims live in Asia. They are distributed in countries and regions from Indonesia in the east to Turkey in the west. Indonesia has more than 200 million Muslims, accounting for 10% of the world’s total. Muslims make up 13% of the population. There are 8 million Muslims in Europe, 4 million of whom live in Germany, and 4 million live in North and South America. About 2.3 million Muslims live in the United States, accounting for 0.8% of the U.S. population. About 700,000 Muslims live in Canada. .

At the same time, reports also indicate that 90% of Muslims are Sunni and 10% of Muslims are Shia. Nearly two-thirds of Shia Muslims live in Iran, which is one of the four One of the countries dominated by Shiite Muslims, along with Iraq, Azerbaijan and Bahrain. Amani Jemal, associate professor of politics at Bruce University in the United States, said: "This report has changed the mainstream concept that Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims." The person in charge of the forum pointed out that this report is more extensive than the survey of the Christian population. It is a detailed report on both the number and distribution of the Muslim population.

Alan, deputy director of the forum, said: "We never thought there were so many Muslims in some countries. Surveys show that these countries are home to a large number of Muslims, such as India, Russia and China. Many people think that most of Europe Muslims are immigrants. This statement is only suitable for Western Europe, because Muslims in other parts of Europe, such as Russia, Albania, and Kosovo, are local residents. This shows that more than half of the Muslims in Europe are local residents.

According to report statistics, the largest Muslim communities in the world are located in the following ten countries.

1: Indonesia, with 202,867,000 people, accounting for 88.2% of the total population.

2: Pakistan, 174,082,000, accounting for 96.3% of the total population.

3: India, 160,945,000, accounting for 13.4% of the total population

4: Bangladesh, 145,312,000, accounting for the total population. 89.6%.

5: Egypt, 78,513,000, accounting for 94.6% of the total population.

6: Nigeria, 78,056,000, accounting for 50.4% of the total population.

7: Iran, 73,777,000, accounting for 99.4% of the total population

8: Turkey, 73,619,000, accounting for 98% of the total population

9: Algeria, 34,199,000, accounting for the total population. 98%.

10: Morocco, 31,993,000, accounting for 99% of the total population.