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Muslims in US

Muslims in the United States make up about 1.34% of the population, which is approximately 4.45 million people. Islam is the third-largest religion in the country, following Christianity and Judaism.The Muslim community in the US is highly diverse, with significant numbers of immigrants from various countries as well as native-born Americans. The first Muslims in America were enslaved Africans brought over during the transatlantic slave trade.Muslims are not evenly distributed across the country. Some states and metropolitan areas, like New Jersey and Washington, D.C., have higher concentrations of Muslims. The Muslim population in the US is growing rapidly.

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Maryland’s attorney general should reinstate Zainab Chaudry to the state hate-crime commission, a number of Muslim groups reiterated.
News ID: 3486214    Publish Date : 2023/11/29

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The governor of the US state of Vermont called on the people of the state to unite in helping the Muslim and Arab community after three Palestinian youths were attacked by a gunman.
News ID: 3486211    Publish Date : 2023/11/29

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A Palestinian student who was shot along with two others in Vermont on Saturday night has been discharged from a hospital, a source close to the families said.
News ID: 3486207    Publish Date : 2023/11/28

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A demonstration is planned to be held on Capitol Hill in the US capital on Tuesday to call for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.   
News ID: 3486202    Publish Date : 2023/11/28

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Atlanta City Council in a recent resolution called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an end to violence there.
News ID: 3486130    Publish Date : 2023/11/22

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A high school in Maryland has launched a probe into an Islamophobic incident when a teacher allegedly singled out a “visibly” Muslim student.
News ID: 3486126    Publish Date : 2023/11/22

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A woman who attacked a Muslim man with her cell phone and hot coffee at a Brooklyn playground while making anti-Islamic remarks turned herself in to the police on Tuesday.
News ID: 3486123    Publish Date : 2023/11/22

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A former Obama administration adviser was captured on video insulting Islamic sanctities and saying the killing of 4,000 Palestinian children was "not enough."
News ID: 3486119    Publish Date : 2023/11/22

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A mosque in Louisville, the largest city in the US state of Kentucky, held a Palestine Awareness Day on Saturday.
News ID: 3486074    Publish Date : 2023/11/19

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A Muslim woman was verbally harassed and threatened by a man on a Washington, D.C. metro train last month, according to a video that has recently resurfaced on social media.
News ID: 3486070    Publish Date : 2023/11/19

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Students at Stanford University have staged a sleep-in protest for nearly a month to condemn Israeli atrocities in Gaza and demand that university officials divest from and boycott Israeli ventures and academic institutions.
News ID: 3486059    Publish Date : 2023/11/18

WASHINTON, DC (IQNA) – A 12-year-old Muslim girl attending Francisco Middle School in San Francisco has reported an Islamophobic attack by two classmates after school hours.
News ID: 3486055    Publish Date : 2023/11/18

WASHINTON, DC (IQNA) – A man selling goods associated with the Islamic faith outside a mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, was shot and wounded on Friday morning, according to local police.
News ID: 3486053    Publish Date : 2023/11/18

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A number mosques and Muslim organizations in the US state of Ohio issued an open letter addressed to Ohio elected officials, calling on them to address Israel’s massacre of people in Gaza as well as the alarming rise of anti-Muslim hate crimes in the state. 
News ID: 3486043    Publish Date : 2023/11/16

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – An eighth-grade student from Corona Del Mar Middle and High School in Newport Beach, US state of California, has been suspended for saying “free Palestine.”
News ID: 3486031    Publish Date : 2023/11/15

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Several Muslim American lawyer groups have accused the top 100 law firms in the US of fueling "Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment" by showing "one-sided support for Israel" in the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
News ID: 3486028    Publish Date : 2023/11/15

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Two student groups at the University of Connecticut, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association (MSA), have been the targets of threatening messages in the past two weeks.
News ID: 3486000    Publish Date : 2023/11/13

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has triggered a wave of grief and anger among Palestinian Americans in Chicago, who feel helpless and frustrated by the situation.
News ID: 3485999    Publish Date : 2023/11/13

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – There has been an unprecedented rise in complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bias in the US state of California since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip began last month.
News ID: 3485975    Publish Date : 2023/11/12

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Muslims in Massachusetts have been facing a significant rise in anti-Muslim bias and online attacks known as doxxing since the start of Israel-Hamas war.
News ID: 3485958    Publish Date : 2023/11/11