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Kurds have been coming to the United States and Canada from Turkey, Iraq and Iran for decades. Thousands of Kurds fled Iraq during and subsequent to Saddam Hussein’s mass killings of Kurds through chemical and conventional warfare. Those [...]

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The first official mosque was built in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1934. Today, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) based in Washington DC, there are more than 1,209 known mosques throughout America.

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Amazingly, there is no definitive estimate for the number of Muslims in the United States of America. There are many estimates, ranging from about two million to possibly seven million (1 or 2 per cent of the US population), but there is little reliable data.

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Immigrants to Canada in the past were predominantly from Europe while the majority of today’s immigrants including many Muslims come from Asia and Africa.

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