Statistics
Many Latino Muslims live in various cities within the United States, their numbers estimated to be from between 70,000 and 200,000. The Latino Muslim phenomenon has had a growing presence in states like New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Florida. Since the United States Census Bureau does not provide statistics on religion, statistics are scarce and wide ranging. Some estimates say there are between 15,000 to 50,000 Hispanic Muslims in the United States. According to the Islamic Society of North America there are 40,000 Hispanic Muslims in the United States. The majority of Hispanic converts to Islam are women. Many Hispanic and Latino Muslims also include people with Middle Eastern descent from Latin America.
Persistent anecdotal evidence suggests that Latino Muslim converts face discrimination from their own families, and sometimes from the wider US society.
Read more about this topic: Hispanic And Latino American Muslims
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