Muslim Americans exemplify diversity, potential

Gallup polling has released the results of the first-ever, nationally representative study of Muslim Americans, revealing great racial diversity, propensity for potential, and highly educated females.

Polling found that Muslim Americans are the most racially diverse group surveyed in the United States, in comparison to Catholics, Jews, Protestants, and Mormons. Additionally, the report also reveals that Muslim American women are one of the most highly educated female religious groups in the US, and Muslim Americans overall have the highest degree of economic gender parity at all ends of the income spectrum.

The report also examines the civic engagement of Muslims, and found that only 51 percent of Muslim Americans are registered to vote – one of the lowest percentages polled among young Americans. On the area of life evaluation and whether they see themselves as “thriving,” Muslim Americans ranked least likely to see themselves as “thriving”; however, when compared to Muslim Americans in other Western societies, Muslim Americans ranked among the highest with the largest percentage of Muslims in Western societies who say they are “thriving.”

The results of the polling are based on daily cell phone and landline phone interviews with more than 300,000 adults, aged 18 or older, during 2008.

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