Anonymous wrote:
Most people wearing niqab may be immigrants, I have no idea.
Anonymous wrote:
But I do know most Muslims here were born here. Most are black muslims who have been here forever, and children of immigrants.
Anonymous wrote:
As Gulfies is a pejorative term.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but I'm sick of seeing women (?) in full burkas with just eye slits in them, wafting around Tysons Corner Center. Go back to the Middle East; that's totally unacceptable here. If a man floated around the mall covered head to toe in a costume it would be interpreted as a security risk.
What makes you think they are from the Middle East in the first place? The two women I know are American born converts. Most Muslims here were born here.
I don't think that's a fair statement; most niqabis you see around Tysons', specifically, are Gulfies. Muslim-majority country immigration numbers are at approximately a hundred thousand a year (that's a projection, not actual records, because no one tracks religious affiliation of incoming immigrants), so it's a sound theory that a good chunk of Muslims in America weren't born here.