The increase of Muslim communities in the United States were the effects of long-term migration of different Muslim groups to the country; the US Census places these people under the category of Arabs and belong different sub-groups since Muslim immigrants have different ethnicity as some came from Africa and Middle East. The scope of their research illustrates the living conditions of Muslims which the article claimed that Muslims were scattered throughout the country and not evenly distributed. The statistics also show that almost half of the US population was Muslims. In fact, from 2006 up to 2010, there was an estimated 1.5 million Muslims currently residing in the US, and they were unevenly distributed across different states and counties (Asi and Beaulieu 1-2). Furthermore, according to Mohamed a researcher of the PEW Research statistics, the current Muslim population in the United States went as far as to a ballooning 3.3 million residents this 2015 and expected to reach 8.1 million by year 2050 (Mohamed, “A new estimate of the U.S. Muslim population”). With the increase of Muslim population comes an increase of hostile behaviors between Muslims and the Americans which as explained in Eichenwald’s report that right wing extremists exhibited violent attitudes towards the Islamic community which lead to brutal killings (Eichenwald “US Right Wing Extremists”). From the news both online and in print, it sums up the fact that Muslim communities experience violence as a result of their ethnicity and therefore cannot live in peace.
WORKS CITED
Asi, Maryam and Daniel Beaulieu. "Arab Households in the United States: 2006-2010." United States Census Bureau (2013): Web. Accessed 1 Mar. 2016.
Eichenwald, Kurt. “US Right-Wing Extremists are a Bigger Threat to America than ISIS.” Newsweek. 4 Feb. 2016. Web. Accessed 1 Mar. 2016.
Mohamed, Besheer. “A new estimate of the U.S. Muslim population.” Pew Research. 6 Jan. 2016. Web. Web. Accessed 1 Mar. 2016.
