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Jun 26, 2017 · [Harish Tyagi/EPA] 26 Jun 2017. Millions of Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. During the month of...
Nov 15, 2017 · Arbaeen is the best of what Islam has to offer: an invitation of peace to the whole of humanity, and a promise that for every oppression a voice will rise up in defiance. Arbaeen I would venture is to the image of the man it commemorates: Hussain ibn Ali, he, who alone before a furious army, stood taller than Tyranny itself so man would learn ...
Jul 17, 2017 · While the global population is expected to grow 32 percent by 2060, the number of Muslims is expected to grow 70 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. In the second half of this century...
- Muslims Concerned About Extremism, Both Globally and in U.S.
- Roughly Half of Muslims Say They Have Experienced Recent Discrimination
- Muslims Leery of Trump
- Muslim Women More Concerned Than Men About Their Place in Society
- Muslim Demographics: A Diverse and Young Population
- Muslims Say Their Faith Is Not only About Beliefs and Rituals
- Social Values: Growing Acceptance of Homosexuality
- Political Preferences: Muslims Are Strongly Democratic
Overall, eight-in-ten Muslims (82%) say they are either very concerned (66%) or somewhat concerned (16%) about extremism in the name of Islam around the world. This is similar to the percentage of the U.S. general public that shares these concerns (83%), although Muslims are more likely than U.S. adults overall to say they are veryconcerned about e...
In addition to gauging broad concerns about discrimination, the survey also asked Muslims whether they personally have experienced a few specific kinds of discrimination within the past year. The share of U.S. Muslims who say they have faced at least one of these types of discrimination has risen modestly in recent years. About a third of Muslims, ...
The relationship between Donald Trump and the U.S. Muslim community has received a lot of media coverage, especially following Trump’s statement during the campaign that he would seek a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” and his executive order blocking travel from six Muslim-majority countries. 2 About three-quarte...
The survey finds a consistent gender gap on several questions about what it is like to be a Muslim in America, showing that Muslim women have a higher level of concern than Muslim men about the place of Muslims in U.S. society. For example, more Muslim women than men say that there is a lot of discrimination against Muslims in the U.S. today, that ...
Muslims represent a relatively small but rapidly growing portion of the U.S. religious landscape. Pew Research Center estimates that there are 3.45 million Muslims of all ages living in the U.S. – up from about 2.75 million in 2011 and 2.35 million in 2007. This means Muslims currently make up roughly 1.1% of the U.S. population. 3 (For more inform...
The diversity of Muslims in the U.S. extends to religious beliefs and practices as well. While nearly all Muslims say they are proud to be Muslim, they are not of one mind about what is essential to being Muslim, and their levels of religious practice vary widely. Most U.S. Muslims (64%) say there is more than one true way to interpret Islam. They ...
American Muslims, like the U.S. public as a whole, have become much more accepting of homosexuality in recent years. In the first Pew Research Center survey of Muslims, in 2007, far more Muslims said homosexuality should be discouraged by society (61%) than said it should be accepted (27%). By 2011, Muslims were roughly evenly split on this questio...
Two-thirds of U.S. Muslims either identify as Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party; far fewer (13%) identify as Republican or lean toward the GOP. Muslims favored the Democratic Party over the GOP by comparable margins in both previous Pew Research Center surveys. When asked how they voted in last year’s presidential election, three-quarte...
Mar 25, 2024 · Eid al-Fitr marks a joyful end to Ramadan, a sacred month of fasting and prayer. The three-day festival is celebrated in many different ways across the world. When the sun sets on April 9, Muslims ...
Jun 14, 2017 · 16 Beautiful Islamic Landmarks Around the World Getting Around By Stefan Zechner Jun 14, 2017 According to a 2017 report from the Pew Research Center , Muslims are the world’s fastest growing religious group.
Aug 9, 2017 · There were 1.8 billion Muslims in the world as of 2015 – roughly 24% of the global population – according to a Pew Research Center estimate. But while Islam is currently the world’s second-largest religion (after Christianity), it is the fastest-growing major religion.
