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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:36 pm
by TheCatt
How many Americans (# or %), do you think are Muslim?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:46 pm
by GORDON
2 million.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:50 pm
by Leisher
7%
Actually, I'd like to change that to 3%.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:54 pm
by Malcolm
After checking the stats on Christians and Jews in the US, I'd say 0.5 - 1.0%.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:04 pm
by Stranger
anywhere from 3-5 for every gas station and carryout in America.. I'd guess 8-10 million
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:16 pm
by TheCatt
I guessed 2 million as well.
So I said "don't look it up," but Malcolm looks shit up.
THERE WAS ONE RULE, MALCOLM- ONE.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:17 pm
by GORDON
So what's the answer, and the point?
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:50 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:I guessed 2 million as well.
So I said "don't look it up," but Malcolm looks shit up.
THERE WAS ONE RULE, MALCOLM- ONE.
You said not to look up the info on the Muslims. I didn't. The Christian : Jew ratio helped out. Combined with the US population, that is. Got approximately 2% of the US as Jews. Fixed the floor-ceiling at 0.25-0.5 of that. I was going to go way lower.
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:46 pm
by TheCatt
1.9 million (0.6%)
Apparently there was a study that people WAY overestimate the # of Muslims in the country.
Malcolm cheated. But, you and I are geniuses.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:57 pm
by Malcolm
270-something million Christians. Figure that leaves 30M for everyone else. Minus 5.5M. Based on immigration history alone, no way there are as many Muslims as Jews in this country. I brainlessly halved it, then halved it again for the lower range of my guess.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:03 pm
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote:1.9 million (0.6%)
Apparently there was a study that people WAY overestimate the # of Muslims in the country.
Malcolm cheated. But, you and I are geniuses.
I think I read the number a bunch of years ago when someone mentioned Bush was declaring war on islam and someone else "there are more muslims in America than there are in..." wherever.
I bet half of them are in Dearborn, MI.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:21 pm
by thibodeaux
Haven't checked recently, but 10-ish years ago when Bush was declaring war on Islam, I read somewhere that:
1. Most Muslims in this country were Black Americans, like Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan.
2. Most *Arabs* in this country were actually Coptic Christians from Egypt
No idea if these two things were ever true or are true now.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:24 pm
by Vince
I'm going to say 15 million but figure I'm probably way off.
Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 5:25 pm
by Vince
Vince wrote:I'm going to say 15 million but figure I'm probably way off.
Guess I should have refreshed the screen some time before I responded, huh