Muslim population in the US?

• Mostly an educated guess.
• Encyclopedia Britannica places the number at 5.4 million.
• Other estimates, including our own think tank ISPI, place the number around 7 million.
• Recent study on mosques in the US, conducted jointly by the “Hartford seminary” and “CAIR” gives an indirect estimate of the growth of the Muslim population in the US.
• One-fifth (19%) of American Muslims are converts to Islam.
• Reading about religion (38%).
• Influenced by a fellow Muslim (22%) are the main reasons for conversion.