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Number of Muslims in America.
Nation Master: US ranked 34th w 6 million
Wikipedia: US ranked 52nd w 2.35 million
If Nation Master’s number is correct, it’s rather significant. A larger number than Libya, Jordan, Israel, or Kuwait.
The Faux News people were talking about numbers of Muslms in the US being between three million (which they said was from the Census) and six million, which wasn’t attributed to any source. I wonder if that’s where they got the number from. Anyway, thanks for supplying sources, Roger!
About the left becoming as fundamentalist as the right– yes they have been for a while, I’m sorry to note. The hard left seems now to be becoming anti-semitic too.
Ironically I think there has been a switch, in that the left used to originate from christian/church groups (at least in Canada.) Their motivation was the old care-for-your-neighbour, community activism, rather than a set of extreme right talking points. In Canada, the left-leaning National Democratic Party originated as the CCF party, founded by a baptist minister named Tommy Douglas. Tommy Douglas is considered the father of medicare in Canada. Also ironically he’s the grandfather of Kiefer Sutherland, the right-wing’s pinup boy as ‘Jack Bauer’.