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New Studies on Number of Muslims in the U.S.
Cross-references: In
the Wake of September 11
On November 29, 2001, The Christian Science Monitor featured
an opinion piece "How many US Muslims? Our best estimate." Its
authors, Howard Fienberg and Iain Murray, are analysts at the Statistical
Assessment Service (STATS), a nonpartisan research organization. They
detail methodological flaws with earlier studies, including ancestry studies
citing 4 million Muslims, and the Mosque Study Project citing 6 to 7 million
Muslims. The more recent figures offered by the Tom Smith and CUNY studies,
1.7 million and 1.8 million respectively, are seen as more reliable, "being
drawn from wider, scientifically representative samples." The authors
conclude, "While a precise figure remains elusive, '2 million Muslims,
give or take a few hundred thousand' appears to be America's most accurate
number - for now."
(November 29, 2001, The Christian Science Monitor, Online)
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