Islam in the Americas

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Islam is a minority religion across the countries and territories of the Americas. Approximately 1% of the population of North America are Muslims, and 0.1% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean are Muslims. Suriname has the highest percentage of Muslims in its population for the region, with 13.9% or 75,053 individuals, according to its 2012 census. However, the United States, in which estimates vary due to a lack of a census question, is generally believed to have the largest population, with approximately 3.45 million Muslims living there, about 1.1 percent of the total U.S. population. Most Muslims in the former British Caribbean came from the Indian subcontinent as indentured labourers following the abolition of slavery. This movement also reached Suriname, although other Muslims there moved from a separate Dutch colony, which is now Indonesia. In the United States, the largest Muslim ethnic group is of white Arabs from the Middle East. However, in South America, the...

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