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1Fawaz AGerges, America and Political Islam: Clash of Cultures or Clash of Interests? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 23, 42
2 Muslim world population rate projection: U.S. Center for World Mission, growth rates for Christianity and Islam, in Religious Tolerance, www.religioustolerance.org/growth_isl_chr.htm. Muslims as majority population: Trevor Mostyn, ed., A Concise Guide to Islam, CD produced by Prospect magazine (New York, Oxford University Press), p. 47; John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 2. In India and China: Mostyn, op. cit., p. 60. In Europe: Shireen T.
Hunter, ed., Islam, Europe’s Second Religion: The New Social, Cultural, and Political Landscape
(Washington, D.C.: Praeger/Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002); ibid., in Shireen T. Hunter and Huma Malik, eds., Islam in Europe and the United States: A Comparative Perspective (Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2002), chapter 3, p. 11, footnote 1. In France, Germany, and Great Britain: Esposito, op. cit., p. 234. In the United States: Gustav Niebuhr, “Studies Suggest Lower Count for Number of U.S. Muslims,” The New York Times, August 25، 2001, p. A16. In cities around the world: John L. Esposito, “Islam as a Western Phenomenon: Implications for Europe and the United States,” in Shireen T. Hunter and Huma Malik, op. cit., p. 3.
3 Lawrence H. Mamiya, “Islam in the Americas,” in Azim A. Nanji, ed., The Muslim Almanac (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1996), p. 142.
4 Survey coordinated by Hartford Seminary’s Hartford Institute for Religious Research in Connecticut (April 2001),
http://www.cair-net.org/mosquereport
5Qur’an, Sura 3:19 and Sura 22:78, in Khalid Durán, with Abdelwahab Hechiche, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews (Hoboken, N.J.: The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International