Muslim-Americans diverse, struggling

Since when has Muslim become a race? Muslim is the name of one who practices the religion of Islam. Islam is the religion, and Muslim is the worshipper.
There is no such thing as a Muslim American. It is a joke and a fiction..

No religion can be a race. It can only be a belief system.

Seriously, why are bloggers and "journalists" so obsessed with writing about muslims. Even though they make up the bulk of terrorists bloggers and "journalists" are obsessed with showing how PC they are by trying to find good things about muslims, thus, further segregating them.

Muslim sky god, xtian sky god, mormon sky god... get over it. there is no god. Your actions are informed by beliefs that are in turn based on...... nothing...

What in the world, I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the article.

#1, great point.

Would anyone call a person a capatalist who elected to live in socialist country. Immigrant Muslims are the very worst representatives of what it means to be Muslim. The associated costs and the very act of emigrating to America is the best indicator that Muslim-Americans are anything but shedding their desire for a material world rather than embrassing it as they do. If you are looking for an example of Islam do not ask a Muslim-American from foreign lands.

wanted to know how large muslim population is in USA and what was the size of your sample? Why did you not include other religion like Budhist and Hindus?

Seriously, I also think you guys misunderstood the article.
It basically just shows their finding when we look into religion/population perspective. It doesnt mean that it refers to a race.

And why are you guys not being factual and keep a neutral stance instead of mocking every religious related articles?sigh

As a Muslim living in the US for some time and returning to homeland in Mideast; I started to understand that God is just a big lay, it’s all made up; we are all brainwashed.

The cosmos just self-generated as a causeless cause. This makes as much sense as someone declaring the origin of illness from curses, or human reproduction by only one parent. Although Muslims, Jews, Christians, Baha'is all bear the name religion, their notion of an ultimate cause is a far more credible notion than an accidental universe without a creator.

Didn't a "nice moderate" Muslim behead his wife last month up in Buffalo?

Save it.

Well,..the time it took me to read this article is time I will never have again.
I regret having wasted it on this article. It says NOTHING.
Muslim-Americans...I'm soooo sick of everyone feeling the need to put an identifier in front of American. There will never be true equality or an appreciation for diversity until we consider ourselves AMERICANS. PERIOD.
I'm a second generation American and never considered myself anything but an American. Not AFRICAN American or Indian American or Muslim American or whatever. Geez.

Thank you Michael for this post. These opinion polls are an important representation of what the majority of Muslims are thinking and saying, as opposed to what someone wants to assert we are thinking and saying.

Consider the Gallup poll with Dalia Mogahed on Who Speaks for Islam:
http://muslimmatters.org/2008/05/06/who-speaks-for-islam-part-3a-what-makes-a-radical/

Gallup confronted the question of "who speaks for islam", and the findings are tremendously important for all people to understand. Especially in light of the Islamophobia and state-sponsored hate-mongering (as evidenced by Senator Kyle's invitation to fascist Geert Wilders), we need to know what the majority of Muslims really think, and what drives extremism. As opposed to what bigots and neocons want you to believe we are thinking.