Poll Highlights Muslim Americans' Economic Integration

by Michael Bowman
VOA News
March 2, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1422/poll-highlights-muslim-americans-economic

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Muslims in the United States have achieved a high level of economic integration, but they generally do not feel prosperous and lag behind other groups when it comes to political participation. Those are several conclusions derived from an extensive poll of Muslim Americans, the results of which were released in Washington on Monday.

In post-September 2001 America, perhaps no minority group has aroused more curiosity - and been subjected to more suspicion - than Muslims, who account for less than two percent of the country's population.

A report released by the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, or GCMS, describes Muslims as America's most diverse religious community, the only one in which no single racial group constitutes a majority of practitioners.

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