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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let us spell this out again: The U.S. does not track religious affiliation of its new immigrants. But there's always the good old Pew Forum that at least bothers to explain how they arrived at their numbers.  The [b]Pew does agree that Muslim immigration has been steady at around a hundred thousand a year[/b]. Here you go:

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/05/17/the-religious-affiliation-of-us-immigrants/

"The U.S. government does not collect data on the religious affiliation of immigrants. However, estimates can be made using information gathered by the Department of Homeland Security on the countries of origin of new green card recipients. To estimate the religious breakdown of immigrants from each country, the Pew Research Center relied primarily on the New Immigrant Survey, a nationwide survey conducted in 2003 by scholars at the RAND Corporation, Princeton University, New York University and Yale University that asked [b]more than 8,500 recent legal immigrants about their religion,[/b] among other questions.3

The use of survey data along with country-of-origin data improves the reliability of the estimates because, in some cases, the religious makeup of migrants differs from the religious composition of the overall population in their country of birth. This study does not automatically assume, for example, that if the population of Country A is 75% Muslim, then 75% of migrants from Country A to the United States must be Muslim. On the contrary, the study uses data from the New Immigrant Survey on the religious breakdown of new U.S. green card recipients to estimate the religious affiliation of the vast majority (95%) of legal immigrants."[/quote]

Thanks, PP. A survey population of 8,500 is pretty darn solid. Many surveys that purport to canvas the entire US only talk to 2,000 or 2,500 people, and those surveys generally claim statistical significance of 95%.

I'd say that figure of 100,000 Muslim immigrants has a pretty high degree of statistical significance, aka it's pretty darn reliable.

Signed, racist-Islamophobe soon-to-be divorcee with the druggie kid. I'm also the poster at 10:09 and 10:37, right above.[/quote]

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