Minnesota Among Top Destinations for US Muslims, Survey Finds
Monday, December 11, 2006 at 1:33 pm
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A new survey finds that Minnesota is one the most popular destinations for U.S. Muslims. The state comes in at number 12 of the top dozen states that are home to more than 80 percent of U.S. Muslims.
Conducted by the California-based Genesis Research Associates in August, the survey was paid by the Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). It is the “first scientific survey of American Muslims,” CAIR said.
No exact figure is available, but estimates of U.S. Muslims range from six to eight million.
The survey finds that California, Illinois, New York, Texas, New Jersey each has more Muslims than Michigan, which is generally thought to be home to the largest population of Arab Americans.
Other states that have more Muslims than Minnesota are: Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
According to the survey, Minnesota is home to 2.8 percent of U.S. Muslims. That number does not include “Muslims with non-common Muslim names or those with no Muslim-sounding names
6 Comments
Comment posted December 11, 2006 @ 5:05 pm
Fascinating “That number does not include “Muslims with non-common Muslim names or those with no Muslim-sounding names
Comment posted December 11, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
You are such an angry person swiftee.. It must be really exhausting to continually think of something negative to comment/post/whatever each day.
It may be ethnic profiling but it’s not used in a negative, disciminatory way. I think most people would see this as a reasonable use of names as a marker for ethnicity. Corporations and even the government use the techique in benign ways all the time.
Comment posted December 12, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
I see But questioning people who are more likely to blow an airplane out of the sky is unreasonable.
When faced with the sheer lunacy that passes for the “informed opinion” of the left, responses just write themselves for me.
Comment posted December 11, 2006 @ 11:05 am
Fascinating “That number does not include “Muslims with non-common Muslim names or those with no Muslim-sounding names
Comment posted December 11, 2006 @ 2:00 pm
You are such an angry person swiftee.. It must be really exhausting to continually think of something negative to comment/post/whatever each day.
It may be ethnic profiling but it's not used in a negative, disciminatory way. I think most people would see this as a reasonable use of names as a marker for ethnicity. Corporations and even the government use the techique in benign ways all the time.
Comment posted December 12, 2006 @ 11:00 am
I see But questioning people who are more likely to blow an airplane out of the sky is unreasonable.
When faced with the sheer lunacy that passes for the “informed opinion” of the left, responses just write themselves for me.
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