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”. |