Quote: (09-17-2015 01:23 PM)262 Wrote:
Quote: (09-17-2015 01:03 PM)Alexandrian Wrote:
I think most muslims in the US are Arabs and southeast Asians, while Europe gets the Berber and Kurdish highlanders.
Gotta clarify the implication that Southeast Asian-Americans are Muslim (I don't think this was intended, but I had to clarify). From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American#Religion ):
Quote:Quote:
As of July 2012, 42% of U.S. Asian adults are Christian. 26% are unaffiliated with any religion, 14% are Buddhist, 10% are Hindu, 4% are Muslim, 2% are of another religion, and 1% is Sikh.
The definition of Asian here does include East Asians and South Asians, as well as Southeast Asians, but as you can imply from the percentages above, most Southeast Asian-Americans are not Muslim. Notable exceptions include Malaysian-Americans, but they aren't that numerous. Wikipedia reports only 26K of them versus say 1.7M Vietnamese-Americans ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_American and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_American ).
My bad. I thought Pakistan, India and Bangalesh were considered southeast Asia. The Indian subcontinent is what I meant.