An interesting new study has been published by a caliphate-supporting group, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) which notes the increase of mosques in the United States.

Below, the Islamic Center of America located in Detroit is the largest mosque in America

Of course, more Islamic buildings are the expected result of increased Muslim immigration, which Washington still permits in spite of continued domestic terror attacks.

CAIR has made its report available online: The American Mosque 2011. It has a section titled Major Findings, from which I have pulled some noteworthy items:

• The number of mosques and mosque participants continue to show significant growth. The US Mosque Survey 2011 counted a total of 2,106 mosques; as compared to the year 2000 when 1,209 mosques were counted—representing a 74% increase from 2000.

• The American mosque is a remarkably young institution: over three-fourths (76%) of all existing mosques were established since 1980.

• Mosque leaders endorse Muslim involvement in American society. Over 98% of mosque leaders agree that Muslims should be involved in American institutions; and 91% agree that Muslims should be involved in politics.

• The vast majority of mosque leaders do not feel that overall American society is hostile to Islam. Only 25% of mosque leaders in 2011 believe that American society is hostile to Islam. In 2000 the majority of mosque leaders (54%) agreed that American society is hostile to Islam.

Obviously we citizens are doing something wrong if Muslim leaders think that America is compatible with totalitarian Islam.

Another nugget in the report is how 24 percent of Muslim leaders agree with the statement that “America is immoral.” Why do they choose to live in America when ummah territory is vast and diverse? Perhaps they would be happier in Riyadh or some other cheerful community where religious police enforce Mohammed’s morality.

Following is a chipper MSM article that reflects the idea that Islam is just another religion.

U.S. mosque count grows by 74 percent in decade, San Jose Mercury News, February 29, 2012

The number of American mosques grew by 74 percent in the past decade and are increasingly found in the suburbs, according to a national survey by a coalition of Muslim groups.

The 2011 U.S. Mosque Survey counted 2,106 mosques in the United States, 246 in California and 62 in the Bay Area.

“This building boom is indicative of the growing financial resources of the Muslim community as many Muslims have lived in the U.S. for many decades now and their financial resources have improved,” wrote study author Ihsan Bagby, an associate professor of Islamic studies at the University of Kentucky.

Ravi Mohiuddin attends one of the Bay Area’s newer mosques, though as with many Islamic centers in the Bay Area, his West Valley Muslim Association in Saratoga is a work in progress.

The mosque opened in a rented hall in 2007 amid two insurance offices, a hair salon and lighting store. Just a mile from Apple headquarters, the storefront attracts Apple employees and other Silicon Valley Muslims who come for daytime prayers.

But the congregation has grown from a few dozen to hundreds, and Mohiuddin said adherents are raising money to build a mosque down the street.

Bagby pointed to several factors contributing to the growth: an influx of Muslim refugees from Somalia, Iraq, West Africa and Bosnia; increasing ethnic and denominational diversity within the Muslim community spurring new mosques reflecting different schools of thought; and the expansion of the Muslim population into suburbs and new regions around the country.

Many Muslim organizations don’t seek loans from financial institutions because of the Islamic ban on interest, so Bagby said followers have to increase their membership and confidence before building a mosque.

For Mohiuddin, geography was the biggest reason for launching the mosque in Saratoga.

“The nearest facility for offering prayers and meeting others was in Santa Clara, 20 minutes away,” Mohiuddin said. “For Muslims, we go to the nearest facility for our Friday prayers. And then on weekends, we may go to another facility closer to home.”

Along with counting each mosque, researchers asked hundreds of imams and other mosque leaders about their religious practices, schools of thought and attitudes toward American society.

More than 98 percent believe Muslims should be involved in American institutions, 91 percent believe Muslims should be involved in politics and 55 percent disagreed with the idea that America is immoral.

The poll is the first of its kind since similar surveys by the same group of researchers in 2001 and 2000. The new survey shows some perspectives have changed.

Only about 25 percent of mosque leaders believe American society is hostile to Islam, compared to 56 percent who thought so in 2000.

Mohammad Chaudhry is one of those who believes most Americans welcome their Muslim American neighbors.

The non-Muslim community helped rebuild his Islamic Center of the East Bay in Antioch after an arsonist gutted the mosque in 2007.

Congregations are increasingly diverse and busier with more people participating in weekly services, the survey says. Only African American mosques experienced a plateau or decline in attendance.

“People of all denominations come here,” Chaudhry said. “The Sunnis come, the Shiias come. Muslims from India, Muslims from Pakistan, some from the Middle East, some from Africa, a few from Afghanistan.”

Most mosques are of the Sunni tradition, but the West Coast has the largest number of Shiite mosques. About 1 percent of mosque leaders said they followed the fundamentalist Salafi school, a strict, literalist interpretation of the Quran, and most of those headed African American congregations.

Although the Muslim population has grown, it remains a tiny fraction of the American population.

The report estimated just under 85,000 California Muslims attend the weekly Jummah prayers on Friday afternoons. A larger group of California Muslims — about 273,000 — attend Eid, the high holiday prayers.

The survey was conducted by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.