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Islam in the Americas is a minority religion in all of the countries and territories of theAmericas. Approximately 1% ofNorth America population areMuslims, and0.1% ofLatin America andCaribbean population are Muslims.^[1]

Suriname has the highest percentage ofMuslims in its population for the region, with 13.9% or 75,053individuals, according to its 2012 census.^[2] However, the United States, in which estimates vary due to a lack of a census question, is generally believed to havethe largest population, with approximately 3.45 million Muslims living there,^[3] about 1.1 percent of the total U.S. population.^[4]

Most Muslims in the former British Caribbean came from theIndian subcontinent as indentured servants following the abolition of slavery.^[5] This movement also reached Suriname, although other Muslims there moved from a separate Dutch colony, which is nowIndonesia. In the United States, the largest Muslim ethnic group is ofwhiteArabs from theMiddle East.^[6] However, in South America, the Muslim population is mainly composed of upper-class immigrants from theLevant, including those from Lebanon and Syria.^[7]

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The population of Muslims varies across the Americas. Below is the percentage of every American country that was Muslim in 2010, according to aPew Research Center estimate:^[8]

Muslims among total population

Country	Estimated % (in 2010)[9]
Suriname	15.2
Guyana	7.0(2012)
Trinidad and Tobago	5.9
Canada	4.9(2021)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1.5
British Virgin Islands	1.2
Bermuda	1.1
Argentina	2.14[10]
Barbados	1.0
French Guiana	0.9
United States	1.34
Panama	0.7
Antigua and Barbuda	0.6
Cayman Islands	0.4
Guadeloupe	0.4
AnguillaAnguilla	0.3
Falkland Islands	0.3
Grenada	0.3
St. Kitts and Nevis	0.3
Venezuela	0.3
Aruba	0.2
Caribbean Netherlands	0.2
Curaçao	0.2
Martinique	0.2
Sint Maarten	0.2
St. Pierre and Miquelon	0.2
Bahamas	0.1
Belize	0.1
Dominica	0.1
Honduras	0.1
St. Lucia	0.1
U.S. Virgin Islands	0.1
Bolivia	<0.1
Brazil	<0.1
Chile	<0.1
Colombia	<0.1
Costa Rica	<0.1
Cuba	<0.1
Dominican Republic	<0.1
Ecuador	<0.1
El Salvador	<0.1
Greenland	<0.1
Haiti	<0.1
Jamaic	<0.1
Mexico	<0.1
Montserrat	<0.1
Paraguay	<0.1
Peru	<0.1
Puerto Rico	<0.1
Turks and Caicos Islands	<0.1
Uruguay	<0.1

During the rule of the Spanish and Portuguese in the Americas, Islam and any religion beyondCatholic Christianity were strictly forbidden. Some of the first Muslims to enter America wereWolof (Jelofe) slaves of Senegal who were introduced toHispaniola in 1522.^[11] Their entry was soon banned byCasa de Contratación that regulated Spanish trade in the Americas since they were consideredMoors (Moros). This did however not stop their further import since African slaves who were introduced toSpanish America had their origin and faith obscured by slave traders.^[11] Despite the suppression of Islam some Islamic customs and beliefs appear to have transferred to the Americas such as the idea of going to heaven riding horses and bathing onSaint John's Eve.^[12]

In regards to Immigrant Muslims in America: at first, a population of African Muslims entered the United States as slaves, and at the next stage, while the immigration laws to this country eased the conditions for accepting immigrants from all over the world, another population of Muslim people entered there. In the last 25 years, new waves of immigrants as well as the tendency of a large group of American blacks to Islam have caused an increase in the number of Muslims in America. According to one of the professors of the University of Massachusetts, USA, the number of Muslims in America is estimated to be close to four million people, and is appraised that two thirds of this population are "immigrants and their children" apart from Muslim Americans.

In 1991, more than 100,000 immigrants entered the United States legally, most of whom were people (mostly Muslim) from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and India.^[13]

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Shia Muslims comprise 15-20% of Muslims in the Americas;^[14] which is nearly 786,000^[15] to 2.500.000 persons in the U.S.^[16]Shia Muslims are situated on United States. The American Shia Muslim community are from different parts of the world such asSouth Asia,Europe,Middle East, andEast Africa.^[17][18]

The American Shia Muslim community have many activities and have founded several organization such as theIslamic Center of America and North America Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities Organization (NASIMCO).^[19]

The first group of immigrant Shiites (Shias) migrated to the United States from Lebanon and Syria about one hundred and eighty years ago (1824-1878). These Shiite Muslims migrated to cities such as Detroit, Michigan, and Ross (California) and North Dakota.^[20]

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