Although there are no official figures, the United States is believed to be home to between 6-8 Muslims.Well, that's not very many.
Just kidding. Obviously, the operative word that was accidentally omitted is "million." But guess what? Official figures--yes, they do exist--place the number at anywhere between 1.8 million and 2.5 million, substantially fewer than the onIslam stat.
You don't suppose the numbers were kited on purpose, do you? ;)
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Those inflated numbers of American Moslems, to the extent they aren't simply pulled out of thin air, are often based on statistical surveys of Arab last names as a proportion of total sample size. The fly in the ointment is that, while the U. S. does indeed have a substantial Arab-American population, the overwhelming majority of them are Christians.
Jacksonville, Florida, where I live makes a good case in point: a significant proportion of the city's inhabitants have Arabic last names, e.g., Tommy _Hazouri_, who was mayor during the 1990s, but almost all of them are Christians, largely Catholics with a sprinkling of Protestants (Hazouri himself is Methodist). My own personal physician is a Maronite Christian, originally from Lebanon. I sometimes attend the Syriac Rite Catholic Church that is near my home. None of the parishioners seems likely to convert to Islam any time soon.
I have a feeling that more often than not they ARE pulled out of thin air. As well, it's a case of wishful thinking, I think.
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