America Free but Immoral
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- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:35:37 -0700
America Free but Immoral
Muslims: America free but immoral
By UWE SIEMON-NETTO, UPI religion correspondent
-- There are seven million Muslims in the United States, according
to a new report published by the Council on American-Islamic
relations.
The report compiled by the Hartford Institute for Religious Research
shows that U.S. Muslims are theological conservatives with a mixed
view of American life.
On the positive side, 99 percent agree either "strongly" (82%) or
"somewhat" that "America is a technologically advanced society that we
can learn from. Moreover, 35 percent feel strongly that America is an
example for freedom and democracy, and 42 percent concur "somewhat"
with this statement.
However, two thirds are either strongly (28%) or somewhat (39%) of the
opinion that America is an immoral, corrupt society. This view was
most forcefully expressed by African-American Muslims, who account for
30 percent of the followers of Islam.
Of this group, 39 percent agreed "strongly" with the claim that
"America" is immoral. By contrast, only 23 percent of the southern
Indian immigrants or their descendants share this feeling as
adamantly, according to the Hartford report.
On the other hand, only 15 percent of the American Muslims agreed
strongly with the statement that American society was hostile to their
faith. Another 42 percent, however, told researchers that this was
"somewhat" true.
Compared with Europe, the Muslim population in America is still
relatively small. Germany whose population of 82 million is less than
one third as large as that of the U.S. has 3.2 million Muslim
residents. France, population 60 million, has four million Muslims,
who are by now the second-largest religious group in that country.
In the Netherlands, chiefly in Rotterdam, scores of churches have been
converted because their former Christian members had deserted them.
"In many European countries church attendance is so low that the day
does not seem far off when weekly worshipers of the Islamic faith will
outnumber regular churchgoers," IDEA, a Protestant wire-service,
predicted years ago.
In the United States, 46 percent of Christians attend services at
least once a week, compared with one-tenth of church members in many
Western European countries. Nevertheless, it is still considerably
less than the 76 percent of Muslim men who go to mosque for Friday
prayers in America.
Like Christians, American Muslims are by no means a homogenous group.
There are 40 different Islamic denominations of which the Islamic
Society of North America is the largest. Of the 1,209 U.S. mosques, 27
percent adhere to this organization, the Hartford Study shows.
The average membership of an American mosque numbers 1,625. This is 25
percent more than in 1994 when the Hartford Institute conducted its
last survey of American mosques. This brings the number of U.S.
Muslims associated with a house of worship to two million, out of a
total of seven million.
Of those who participate in the life of an American Mosque, 75 percent
are male, 81 percent have a high school diploma and 48 percent a
college degree.
Almost 30 percent of American Muslims are converts from other
religions. In Europe, by contrast, the number of conversions to Islam
is insignificant, according to a recent IDEA report.
Theologically, American mosques are very strict. When asked, "How
important are the following sources of authority in the worship and
teachings of your mosque," 95 percent of the respondents described the
Koran as "absolutely foundational," and 90 percent said the same about
the Sunnah (teachings) Of Mohammed.
Similarly, 96 percent reported that their mosques emphasized in their
teaching abstinence from alcohol and from sex outside marriage.
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