Most US mosques are ethnically diverse yet dominated by a single ethnic group

Evidence

Because there is a large, diverse Muslim population residing in both Chicago and the DFW area, mosques tend to serve a particular ethnic or racial congregation. According to Amaney Jamal, 90 percent of mosques in the United States are ethnically diverse, but one ethnic group tends to dominate. Arab mosques are tied to higher levels of civic and political engagement, while Asian mosques generally see a higher level of civic engagement but fewer connections with political participation (Jamal 2005). — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 115

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how Muslim communities internally segregate by ethnicity and race, informing the racialization-internal-dynamics side of the map.