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Article: Muslim Americans Exemplify Diversity, Potential; Key findings from a new report by the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies.(Survey)
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- Gallup Poll News Service
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- March 2, 2009
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Byline: Mohamed Younis
Synopsis: Muslim Americans are the most racially diverse religious group in the United States. Muslim American women are among the most educated in the country, and young Muslim Americans report among the lowest levels of being registered to vote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the first-ever nationally representative study of a randomly selected sample of Muslim Americans, Gallup reveals that Muslim Americans are the most racially diverse religious group surveyed in the United States, with African Americans making up the largest contingent within the population, at 35%.
This finding is one of many in Gallup's report, ...