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Civic and Political Integration of

Religion and Immigration: Chris-

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Muslim Americans. Report of the

tian, Jewish, and Muslim Experi-

Task Force on Muslim American

ences in the United States. Walnut

The Mother Mosque of America

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Civic and Political Engagement.

Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003.

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Chicago: The Council, 2007.

Executive Editor: George Clack

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Editor-in-Chief: Michael Jay Friedman

Esposito, John L., and Dalia

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Managing Editor: Chandley McDonald

Mogahed. Who Speaks for

Contributing Editor: Raphael Calis

Islam?: What a Billion Muslims

The following web sites were

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A supplement to

Being Muslim

government

in America

Muslim Americans work in federal, state, and local

governments throughout the United States. At left, from

DiD you knoW?

top to bottom, is a sample.

Keith Ellison became the first Muslim elected to the

Sixty-five percent of the Muslim American popula-

U.S. Congress, as the representative from Minnesota’s

tion are first-generation immigrants, and 61 percent

Fifth District, in 2006. He took his oath of office on a

of the foreign-born arrived in the 1990s or later.

copy of the Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Muslim Americans spend about $170 billion on

André Carson, a member of the Indianapolis City-

consumer products annually, according to a 2007

County Council, became the second Muslim member

figure by advertising agency JWT, and this figure is

of Congress after winning a special election in March

expected to grow.

2008 to become the congressman for the Seventh

District of Indiana.

Iftar dinners at the White House during Ramadan

have become regular occasions since the mid-

Diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has served as the United

1990s.

States Ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S.

Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan.

An imam can serve in several different roles in the

United States. In most African-American mosques,

Doctor Elias A. Zerhouni was director of the National

the imam operates in both spiritual and adminis-

Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008.

trative capacities. In predominantly immigrant

mosques, however, the imam is more likely to be a

Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli served as senior advi-

spiritual leader only.

sor to the United States Secretary of State.

Children’s books bring the Muslim holy month of

Representative Saqib Ali represents part of Montgom-

Ramadan, like other holidays, into the American

ery County in the Maryland General Assembly’s House

mainstream.

of Delegates.

The largest mosque in the United States, opened

by the Islamic Center of America in 2005, is in

Dearborn, Michigan.

Business

sports

Muslim Americans contribute to al aspects of U.S.

Sports in the United States have been an important

business. Pictured at right, starting at the top, is a

route to prominence for many American Muslims.

sampling.

New York fashion designer dalia Ghanem, gives

At top, a young Muhammad Ali, who became

Arab traditions an American twist.

heavyweight champion of the world in 1964. The

boxer had changed his name and converted to the

Scientist ahmed Zewail of the California Institute of

Nation of Islam. Later Ali became a Sunni Muslim,

Technology won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

and he now practices Sufism.

The books of author Yahiya Emerick present Islamic

The basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, at

themes and history to non-Muslim audiences.

far left, is also a Muslim convert. Jabbar, who re-

tired from professional basketbal in 1989, is the

National Basketbal Association’s al -time leading

The innovations of structural engineer Fazlur r.

scorer.

Khan, honored on this postage stamp from Bangla-

desh, led to Chicago’s 110-story Sears Tower, the

world’s tallest building when completed in 1974.

Jihad Muhammad, in the white headband, is an-

other basketbal player who recently starred for a

Journalist Fareed Zakaria is the editor of News-

top college team, the University of Cincinnati.

week International magazine and host of the CNN

interview program Fareed Zakaria GPS.

Professional football player Az-Zahir Hakim, leap-

ing to catch a pass, had a 10-year career in the

Hollywood producer and director Moustapha

National Football League.

akkad filmed stories of Islamic history such as The

Message and Lion of the Desert, and the popular

Halloween movies.

Boxer Bernard Hopkins learned his craft in prison as

a young man and was later the middleweight cham-

pion for more than 10 years. He still competes.

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