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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.

IQNA – A New Jersey school district apologized for offending a Muslim activist group this week after a middle school teacher featured a class quiz question naming Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL), as a terror group.
News ID: 3488849    Publish Date : 2024/06/22

IQNA – A Muslim mother and her children became the victims of an alleged attempted murder at their apartment complex swimming pool in Euless, Texas.
News ID: 3488840    Publish Date : 2024/06/22

IQNA – The Council on American-Islamic Relations San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) has issued a strong condemnation of a hateful verbal attack targeting the Muslim community during Eid Al-Adha.
News ID: 3488810    Publish Date : 2024/06/19

IQNA – Members of the Islamic Center of San Francisco reported an Islamophobic incident during the Eid al-Adha prayers on Monday.
News ID: 3488806    Publish Date : 2024/06/18

IQNA – A survey has been lunched to monitor the bullying of Muslim youth in public schools in the US state of Massachusetts.
News ID: 3488748    Publish Date : 2024/06/15

IQNA – The public has been urged to act now to call on officials in Harford County, US state of Maryland, to stand in solidarity with the Harford Islamic Center (HIC)/Masjid Ibrahim.
News ID: 3488736    Publish Date : 2024/06/13

IQNA – A Muslim lawyer in the United States has taken legal action, alleging job discrimination based on her social media posts supporting Palestine.
News ID: 3488718    Publish Date : 2024/06/12

IQNA – Police are actively searching for an individual accused of defacing a Brooklyn mosque's sign in what is being investigated as an anti-Muslim hate crime.
News ID: 3488654    Publish Date : 2024/06/08

IQNA – Andrey Desmond, the individual who admitted to the assault of Representative Maryam Khan, received a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday in Hartford.
News ID: 3488628    Publish Date : 2024/06/05

IQNA – Muslim community members are voicing their fears of further violence in the wake of an alleged hit-and-run incident in a Minneapolis mosque's parking lot.
News ID: 3488500    Publish Date : 2024/05/26

IQNA – 37-year-old Minneapolis resident James Evan Suttles has been charged with second-degree assault after he allegedly targeted a mosque attendee in a hit-and-run incident.
News ID: 3488480    Publish Date : 2024/05/25

IQNA – A coalition of faith leaders gathered at UC San Diego on Friday to call on the university’s administration to do better to address Islamophobia on campus after a student organization hosted a controversial speaker known for anti-Muslim rhetoric.
News ID: 3488379    Publish Date : 2024/05/18

IQNA –  An expert on Muslim philanthropy deplored the bias and prejudice against Muslims in the US.
News ID: 3488349    Publish Date : 2024/05/15

IQNA – The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ San Francisco Bay Area office (CAIR-SFBA) has issued a strong condemnation of an alleged hate crime against individuals advocating for Palestine.
News ID: 3488332    Publish Date : 2024/05/14

IQNA – Arizona State University (ASU) announced yesterday that a scholar who verbally assaulted a woman wearing a hijab will not be allowed back on campus to teach.
News ID: 3488274    Publish Date : 2024/05/10

IQNA – Arizona State University (ASU) is currently an investigation into one of its professors following a harassment of a Hijabi Muslim woman at a pro-Palestine demonstration.
News ID: 3488249    Publish Date : 2024/05/08

IQNA – An Islamic center has moved to a renovated church building in Moses Lake in Grant County, Washington.
News ID: 3488240    Publish Date : 2024/05/07

IQNA – Muslim Advocacy Day was observed in the capitols this week amid increasing discontent regarding the ongoing endorsement by the US administration of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
News ID: 3488202    Publish Date : 2024/05/05

IQNA – Emory College and Columbia University are under federal scrutiny for potential anti-Muslim discrimination, marking a first in the history of US higher education institutions.
News ID: 3488184    Publish Date : 2024/05/03

IQNA – The leading civil rights and advocacy group for Muslims in the United States has slammed the House of Representatives for passing a contentious bill that makes any critique of Israel a criminal act.
News ID: 3488181    Publish Date : 2024/05/02