Two million Muslims in America vanish!

Posted by Robert on June 22, 2009 6:36 AM

Maybe Obama will appoint a Find-The-Muslims Czar.

"Almost two million vanish from Obama's estimate of U.S. Muslims," by Tom Heneghan for [1] Reuters Blogs, June 21 (thanks to [2] The Religion of Peace):

Almost two million people have inexplicably disappeared from the estimates of the U.S. Muslim population that President Barack Obama has given recently. In his [3] speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4, he spoke about "nearly seven million American Muslims in our country today." On Sunday, the Karachi daily Dawn published [4] an interview with him where he said "we have five million Muslims."...

Many blogs, [5] FaithWorld included, questioned that figure and noted that estimates of the U.S. Muslim population range from 1.8 to 7-8 million. The U.S. Census Bureau [6] cannot ask about religion on a mandatory basis but refers on its website to a Pew Forum study pegging Muslims at [7] 0.6% of the population. The CIA World Factbook uses the same percentage figure. It translates into about 1.8 million....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/06/two-million-muslims-in-america-vanish.html

URLs in this post:
[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/06/22/almost-two-million-vanish-from-obamas-estimate-of-us-muslims/
[2] http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
[3] http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/06/04/islamic-tone-interfaith-touch-in-obamas-speech-to-muslim-world/
[4] http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/12-beat-extremists-you-can-says-obama--bi-04
[5] http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/06/04/islamic-tone-interfaith-touch-in-obamas-speech-to-muslim-world/
[6] http://www.census.gov/prod/www/religion.htm
[7] http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report-religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf