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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 Gastonia man has been accused of vandalizing a mosque by breaking three windows on Sunday evening.
News ID: 3489220    Publish Date : 2024/07/23

IQNA – The Islamic Center of Eastside in Bellevue, Washington, has reopened its doors seven years after being targeted by arsonists.
News ID: 3489193    Publish Date : 2024/07/21

IQNA – An assistant principal at Edison High School has allegedly threatened members of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) over an iftar event, a rights group reports.
News ID: 3489184    Publish Date : 2024/07/20

IQNA – An appointee at the U.S. Interior Department resigned on Tuesday, citing the Biden administration’s “complicity” in the Gaza genocide where at least 37,900 people have been killed since October.
News ID: 3488981    Publish Date : 2024/07/03

IQNA – A North Texas woman has been rearrested and faces a $1 million bond after being charged with the attempted murder of two Muslim children.
News ID: 3488960    Publish Date : 2024/07/02

IQNA – A coalition of American Muslim groups stressed that both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are “fatally flawed candidates,” noting that the next administration should put the “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” as its red line.
News ID: 3488948    Publish Date : 2024/07/01

IQNA – A Muslim rights group in the US has slammed an Israeli envoy’s anti-Muslim remarks, noting that such statements will increase hatred and violence against Muslims in New York.
News ID: 3488932    Publish Date : 2024/06/30

IQNA – Former US president Donald Trump's comments regarding Palestinians have been slammed as “racist” by rights groups.
News ID: 3488923    Publish Date : 2024/06/29

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