THINK ABOUT IT…ONLY 1% of the U.S. population is Muslim, but 20% of U.S. prison inmates are Muslims
August 6, 2019 by BareNakedIslam
At 1%, Muslims are still a very small percentage of the American population. But there’s one place where they are vastly over-represented: State prisons. Take Maryland, which has an estimated 70,000 Muslims, making up over 1% of the population. But of Maryland’s 18,562 prisoners, 5,084 were Muslims. That’s 27.4% or over 1 in 4 prisoners.
Front-page Magazine It would also mean that 1 out of 13 Muslims in Maryland may have been in a state prison.
Those are startling numbers, yet they come from Muslim Advocates, an Islamist legal advocacy group. Both MA’s numbers and the number of Muslims in different states may be miscounted, yet these figures raise serious questions about public safety and the toll that immigration is taking on our communities.
While Maryland’s numbers are some of the worst, MA lists similar figures for Washington D.C. where out of 5,219 prisoners, 1,232 were Muslims, so that once again 1 in 4 prisoners were Muslim. D.C. does have one of the largest Muslim populations in the country, numbering between 2 and 3 percent. Even taking the highest estimate, 6.5% of the Muslim population in D.C. was in jail in 2017.
https://barenakedislam.com/2019/08/06/think-about-it-only-1-of-the-u-s-population-is-muslim-but-20-of-u-s-prison-inmates-are-muslims/
