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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) – The Columbia College Chicago has created a new sensory corner in the Reflection Space at the Student Center where Muslim students pray, and they are upset about it.
News ID: 3485465    Publish Date : 2023/10/07

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – The 8th edition of the annual Muslim film festival in Milwaukee, US state of Wisconsin, will be held for four days later this month.
News ID: 3485428    Publish Date : 2023/10/04

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – An act of Quran desecration in the US state of Illinois that happened in summer but was recently posted on social media is allegedly part of a larger trend of Hindutva-inspired Islamophobia.
News ID: 3485426    Publish Date : 2023/10/04

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A federal agency has sued Chipotle claiming religious harassment on behalf of a Muslim former employee who alleges an assistant manager ripped off her hijab at a Kansas location.
News ID: 3485400    Publish Date : 2023/10/02

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A local mosque in Brooklyn has been given green light to block the street in front of its premises to organize Friday prayers.
News ID: 3485372    Publish Date : 2023/09/30

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Two separate lawsuits this week has revealed the hidden anti-Muslim bias in the US police force.
News ID: 3485364    Publish Date : 2023/09/30

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – The freedom of Muslims in the US and the UK after the September 11, 2001 attacks became tenuous at best.
News ID: 3485345    Publish Date : 2023/09/28

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – For the fifth year in a row, families from Rochester, New York, thankfully received bags full of essential food and hygiene supplies as the Barakah Muslim Charity hosted their fifth annual Day of Dignity.
News ID: 3485292    Publish Date : 2023/09/24

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Buffalo Police say two men were arrested on Wednesday accused of making threats and harassing people inside Jami Masjid Buffalo on Genesee Street.
News ID: 3485277    Publish Date : 2023/09/23

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – Two Muslim women, who are currently running for local office in Massachusetts, say that their campaign materials have been purposely damaged this month, in what they perceive as deliberate attacks.
News ID: 3485263    Publish Date : 2023/09/22

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – The 8th Annual Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium will be held on Monday, September 25, at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
News ID: 3485262    Publish Date : 2023/09/21

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – The Islamophobic targeting and harassment of an elderly Muslim woman in Blaine, Minnesota has drawn condemnations.
News ID: 3485254    Publish Date : 2023/09/20

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – The city of Fremont in the US state of California will commemorate the state’s recognition of August as American Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month.
News ID: 3485236    Publish Date : 2023/09/19

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A dozen Muslim Americans have launched a lawsuit to end a secretive FBI watchlist that they say has turned them into “second-class” citizens.
News ID: 3485228    Publish Date : 2023/09/19

NEW YORK (IQNA) – The Friday prayer sermon at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York (ICCNY) mosque will be delivered by a foreign leader for the first time this week.
News ID: 3485227    Publish Date : 2023/09/19

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – For 18 years, the annual Minnesota Muslim Convention in Minneapolis, US state of Minnesota, has brought together Muslims from across the state and beyond.
News ID: 3485194    Publish Date : 2023/09/17

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A Democratic mayor from New Jersey who is Muslim and was denied entry to the White House earlier this year plans to sue the US administration.
News ID: 3485188    Publish Date : 2023/09/16

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A Dallas man admitted in federal court that he killed one person and tried to kill four others in a hate crime shooting at a car repair shop owned by Muslims.
News ID: 3485178    Publish Date : 2023/09/15

NEW YORK (IQNA) – The Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the NYPD to conduct a “thorough and swift” investigation into the reported attack on the imam of the Islamic Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Astoria, N.Y.
News ID: 3485175    Publish Date : 2023/09/14

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – As students returned to school last week, Muslim and Christian parents in Maryland are fully prepared to fight a court order preventing them from opting their children out of controversial gender and sexual education in public schools.
News ID: 3485139    Publish Date : 2023/09/12