Via JihadWatch
Muslims in the U.S. tend to be "role models," both as Americans and as Muslims, according to an eye-opening commentary in the Wall Street Journal.
After it was revealed that three of the four subway bombers in London were born in England, the British began taking a hard look at their Muslim neighbors. They found that one-quarter of British Muslims do not feel loyal to Britain; Muslims are three times as likely to be unemployed than the general population; and their rates of civic participation are low.
The Journal, however, took a look at the situation among Muslim in the U.S. and found:
Most Arab-Americans aren't Muslims. Only 24 percent of the 1.2 million Americans of Arab descent are Muslim, and most of the rest are Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Protestant.
Most American Muslims aren't Arabs. One third are of South Asian descent, 20 percent are American blacks and just 26 percent are Arabs.
Muslim advocacy groups say there are more than 6 million Muslims in the U.S. But the most credible study to date estimates the total Muslim population at 1,886,000.
59 percent of American Muslims have at least an undergraduate degree, making them the most highly educated group in the U.S.
American Muslims comprise the richest Muslim community in the world - four out of five earn more than $25,000 a year and one in three makes more than $75,000.
82 percent are registered to vote.
64 percent of American Muslims are foreign born, but the overwhelming majority arrived here legally.
21 percent of American Muslims marry a member of another faith.
According to the data compiled by the Journal, the U.S. does not have a "Muslim problem," write Bret Stephens and Joseph Rago in the commentary. "On the contrary, America's Muslims tend to be role models both as Americans and as Muslims." But the Journal warns: "It takes no more than a few men (or women) to carry out a terrorist atrocity, and there can be no guarantee that the U.S. is immune from homegrown Islamist terror." |