How Many Muslims Live Under One Roof In Us

Soraya ali and mira mookerjee give us their opinions and try to pin down just what s got everyone talking about the programme.

How many muslims live under one roof in us.

Muslims like us is a two part bbc2 programme documenting ten british muslims living under one roof. Pew research center has subdivided the muslim community and their percentages into three subsets namely sunnism 65 shi ism 11 and non denominational muslims 24. Rawson ave according to. Christians and muslims both under one roof.

John moore getty images recent political debates over muslim immigration and related issues have prompted many people to ask how many muslims actually live in the united states. Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating eid al fitr a holiday that marks the end of ramadan. The second group was arabs immigrants in the 19th century mainly from lebanon and greater syria. A 2017 study estimated that 3 45 million muslims were living in the united states about 1 1 percent of the total u s.

Today muslims account for 0 9 of the us population making islam the third largest religious group in the us after christianity 70 6 and judaism 1 9. The first known muslims to arrive in the us were from africa as slaves in the 17th century.