Psychiatric News January 21, 2005
Volume 40 Number 2
© 2005 American Psychiatric Association
p. 13
Mich. Has Largest U.S. Muslim Population
Michigan has the second-largest Arab community outside the Middle East,
after Paris. About 300,000 people of Arab descent live in southeast Michigan,
including significant numbers of Iraqi, Lebanese, Yemeni, and Palestinian
Americans. Almost two-thirds of the population were born in the United States,
and 40 percent of those born outside of the country have moved here since
1980, according to data from the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social
Services (ACCESS) Web
site,<www.accesscommunity.org>,
and the Detroit News.
Two-thirds of Arab Americans in the United States speak fluent English, and
three-quarters use Arabic language media to keep informed. More than 90
percent of Arab Americans have close friends or family in the Middle East, and
almost 65 percent have traveled there.
Demographers estimate that more than 8 million Muslims live in the United
States, making them the second-largest religious community in the country.
About half of Arab Americans are Muslim, while the other half identify
themselves as Christian. In the past few decades, Islam has become the
fastest-growing religion in the United States.
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