U.S Muslims population to double by 2030.

 

 

U.S Muslims population to double by 2030.

 After long the office and hectic job and when you come back you go back to the family and kids and you forget everything so I personally feel that you know it's a biggest blessing to have Family and you know have a kid know about what we did is a demographic study of the Muslim population all around the world 232 countries and territories around the world we looked at how many Muslims live in each today we looked at how many Muslims there were in each 20 years ago and we projected forward using the best demographic techniques to try to estimate how many will live in each country in the world 20 years from now although girls from Al Fateh and boys yeah we need boys to everyone you know 95-96 we're about 150 to 200 people you know in one location in Herndon Virginia the community has grown to now you know 5,000 families we have 10 locations two of them are at a synagogue and one at a church that just shows the love that the greater community shows in supporting diversity what we see happening the Muslim population in the United States is pretty dramatic growth in absolute numbers are more than doubling from about 2.6 million to about 6.2 million and in percentage terms roughly a doubling just to put that in the context that means that roughly speaking Muslims by the year 2030 might be about as large in the United States as Episcopalians or Jews are in the US population today that's an important doubling but it's still a very small percentage of the population still under 2% when you're talking about such a small population how is it going to retain its identity and I think the Islam phobia we're seeing is forcing these very ethnically and culturally and socially and religiously different Muslims to come together say to me well how many are going to be followers of al-qaeda how many are going to be supporters of Osama bin Laden I can't tell you that I have no way of predicting levels of religiosity in the future all I can all this tells us is numbers of people 50 years ago if you asked anyone who do you think of anything of a Muslim someone like Muhammad Ali would come up and now if you ask people what do you think of when you think of a Muslim who are they going to name and we're only talking about five decades and that shift has been incredibly traumatic for the American Muslim community because I think precisely when we stopped emphasizing the arts and culture and heritage in all these different ways we lost the ability to communicate Islam in a way that really makes sense to about 20% of the enslaved Africans that helped build this country were Muslim so Muslims have history in this country from before its founding its founding’s they served honorably in the Revolutionary War Civil War the only Muslims in the US Congress for example are African Americans they're named Keith and Andre they don't stick out in the way that people would assume that they would stick out as Muslims it's not very easy to become French if being French means an ethnicity a language a history a culture being an American that's a very open definition it's very easy to become an American nice for me America is the best place to live because here you have the religious freedom you have the choice you have the right to say yes or no you have the right to protest you have everything a human being you know wants to hell you have everything.