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| Thirty-four percent of US Muslims are South Asian |
| 2007-01-18 |
| Nearly 34 percent of American Muslims come from South Asia, with Arab-Americans representing 26 percent, followed by native-born American blacks (20 percent), mostly converts, with the remaining 20 percent coming from Africa, Iran, Turkey and elsewhere. According to a new book, American Islam, by journalist Paul Barrett, Muslims as a group are “more prosperous and better educated than other Americans”. Almost 60 percent of them have college degrees, compared to 27 percent of American adults overall. The median family income among Muslims is $60,000, the national median being $50,000. Eighty percent of them are registered to vote. Compared to the larger and poorer, Muslim populations of Western Europe, American Muslims show the traits of “a minority population successfully integrating into a larger society”. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 The between the lines here is that CAIR (with their fetish on the Arabic side of things) may not speak for the vast bulk of American Muslims although they certainly want us to believe they do. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-01-18 15:19 |
| #6 I remember reading someplace a few months back that Palestinians were the most educated people in the world. If it's true, all it proves is that education don't necessarily mean shit... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-01-18 14:30 |
| #5 Agreed, john. Those Yemenis in Lackawanna's First Ward aren't earning beyond the national average, nor likely anywhere near it. Nor are their children likely to join the ranks of the educated upper middle class after the demands they've put on a school system already oriented to providing workers for the long since closed Bethlehem Steel plant. Some have saved enough to move to the nicer part of Lackawanna, buying neat little houses from retired steelworkers at top dollar, but it's still the same school system. Quite possibly 60% of America's Muslims do have college degrees, but I'll bet the other 40% can barely read and write in any language, nor is it likely that they vote, even if registered. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-18 14:08 |
| #4 Take these "statistics" with more than a few grains of salt. This is about political influence. They need to show themselves as politically active, financially prosperous and numerous. |
| Posted by: john 2007-01-18 06:26 |
| #3 And still, no one's bothered to find out what's being preached in their mosques. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2007-01-18 05:43 |
| #2 Somebody fails to grasp the difference between immigration and colonization. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-01-18 04:24 |
| #1 If that's successful integration, we should bring back that "separate but equal" thingy. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-01-18 00:45 |