The taxi-driver/convenience-store-clerk stereotype misrepresents an upwardly mobile segment of the US population. American Muslims are Well-Educated |
| 67% of American Muslims have a Bachelor’s degree or higher |
| 44% of Americans have a Bachelor’s degree or higher3 |
Maximum Education |
American Muslims1 |
American Muslims2 |
Total Americans3 |
| Advanced Degree |
42.7% |
32.1% |
8.6% |
| Bachelor’s |
35.2% |
30.0% |
35.1% |
| Some College |
9.5% |
19.4% |
32.3% |
| High School |
10.1% |
14.1% |
18.9% |
| No HS Diploma |
2.4% |
4.7% |
4.7% |
|
American Muslims are Affluent |
| U.S. Average income is $42,158 per year (U.S.
Census 2000) |
| 66% of American Muslim HH’s earn over $50,000 / year |
| 26% of American Muslim HH’s earn over $100,000 / year |
Annual Income |
% of HH |
Cumm |
Under $25,000 |
13% |
100% |
$25K-$50K |
21% |
87% |
$50K-75K |
22% |
66% |
$75K-100K |
18% |
44% |
$100K-$150K |
14% |
26% |
$150K-250K |
7% |
12% |
Over $250K |
5% |
5% |
|
Top 10 Occupations of American
Muslims |
Rank |
Occupation |
Percent |
1 |
Student |
20.2% |
2 |
Engineer |
12.4% |
3 |
Physician/Dentist |
10.8% |
4 |
Homemaker |
10.0% |
5 |
Programmer |
7.0% |
6 |
Corporate Manager |
6.4% |
7 |
Teacher |
6.4% |
8 |
Small Business Owner |
4.4% |
9 |
Researcher |
4.1% |
10 |
Admin. Assistant |
2.8% |
|
Total |
84.5% |
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| 50,000 Muslims to Pray on Capitol Hill: Guess Who’s Not Happy? |
The event sounds like yet another Tea Party protest, or perhaps an encore of last weekend’s Values Voter Summit: Devout believers joining together this Friday to pray on Capitol Hill for the soul of America.
Who could argue with that? Well, when the believers happen to be Muslims, and there could be as many as 50,000 of them kneeling to pray in Arabic, yes, you could see how there might be some blowback from the usual suspects. |
| the title of the “9/12 Project” post is simply, “OUTRAGED!” The writers at “Bare Naked Islam” are calling the event “disgusting” and “treasonous” and warn that “50,000 Muslims, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers” will turn the Capitol into “a giant outdoor mosque.” And Charisma magazine, a mainstream Pentecostal publication, quoted Christians in its account saying things like, “It is warfare time.”Read more at www.politicsdaily.com |
For Obama to stand up and talk about how Jesus changed his life, my friends that takes guts. You may disagree with everything he’s about, you may disagree with his policy goals but as Christians, shouldn’t we like it when someone talks about Christ being the missing ingredient in his life? - David Brody, Christian Broadcasting Network So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to [a church]. And I heard [a pastor] deliver a sermon … And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him. And in time, I came to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world and in my own life. |
| It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of [this church] one day and affirm my Christian faith |
| It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany |
| The skeptical bent of my mind didn’t suddenly vanish |
| But kneeling beneath that cross |
| I felt I heard God’s spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth and carrying out His works [...]Read more at masbury.wordpress.com |
Leadership Conference of Women Religious next week “could be the last major struggle over a way of understanding what it means to be Catholic” - “on women’s ordination, the primacy of Roman Catholicism and homosexuality,” on retaining the Vatican II ethos or yielding to the hard-line views of the last two popes. As I see it, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which gathers next week in New Orleans, faces a bleak choice: either die or survive at a great cost to its integrity and dignity. |
The Vatican has thrown down the gauntlet. The choice is stark: acquiesce to a “doctrinal assessment” of leadership conference views — on women’s ordination, the primacy of Roman Catholicism and homosexuality – or reject the probe as an unwarranted fishing expedition bent on putting the organization out of business. |
What we have here, I believe, could be the last major struggle over a way of understanding what it means to be Catholic. Sisters have retained more of Vatican II ethos and spirit than any group in the church, in the face of formidable opposition to large segments of it by the last two popes. |
| Depending on how the leadership conference and various sister leaders respond |
| the Vatican may have already accomplished its end by injecting enough intimidation to coax many reluctant sisters to go alongRead more at ncronline.org |
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