American Muslims are mainstreaming faster than the general public

Evidence

United States, Arab and Muslim populations are economically well off compared to the larger society; they are more highly educated; they are politically moderate overall, fiscally liberal, and socially conservative; they express high levels of “pride in being American”; and on measures of confidence in key public institutions, such as the police, the courts, the federal government, and public schools, they actually score higher than the general public. 8 Even more surprising (to some) is the fact that this Americanizing profile is often stronger among new immigrants than it is among Arabs and Muslims who are born or have lived for long periods of time in the United States. 9 On the whole, Arab/Muslim populations in the United States would appear to be mainstreaming rapidly. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 666

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Empirical counter-evidence to the exclusion thesis—useful for testing which chapter most convincingly relocates the problem.

Related

• Arab and Muslim Americans are rapidly mainstreaming on every measurable indicator (similarity 0.94)
• Pew and Gallup data show Muslim Americans are fully integrated into US society (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim America’s narrative is rooted in blackness, not Arab identity (similarity 0.84)
• American Muslims now outnumber Episcopalians and will match US Jews by 2030 (similarity 0.83)
• Muslims in the US are ordinary citizens who mirror the general population (similarity 0.82)
• Large minorities of Americans hold unfavorable views of Islam and Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• American Muslim diversity of ancestry and arrival pathways fragments unified anti-Islamophobia resistance (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim-majority populations grew nearly 50 percent between 1955 and 1970 (similarity 0.81)
• American public awareness of anti-Muslim discrimination rose substantially by the mid-2010s (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia has moved from academic usage into mainstream national discourse. (similarity 0.80)
• The American Muslim population will become the nation’s second-largest faith group by 2050 (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim-majority student enrollment in the US grew five-fold between 1948 and 1965 (similarity 0.80)
• Arabs are a minority of American Muslims and mostly Christian (similarity 0.80)
• American rhetoric repeatedly fused Muslim identity with fanaticism (similarity 0.80)
• Americans were nearly evenly split in their views of Islam in 2011 (similarity 0.80)