Comparison of the Jewish and Muslim state populations in the US
11th May 2024
I’ve read a number of comments from people wondering about comparisons of Jewish and Muslim populations in different states in the US, so I’m tackling the question here.
In Europe the proportions are way in favor of Muslims, due to a combination of the Holocaust and of the encouragement of Muslim immigration. That is one of the main reasons Europe is in such a quandary, with many countries there deeply afraid of their own Muslim populations, which are substantial.
Just to take an example (doing some quick math here): in Sweden there are about 15,000 Jews out of a total population of about ten and a half million people. That’s a Jewish population of about .15%; in other words, minuscule. But Sweden has many more Muslims, probably about 8% of the total population. France is 5% Muslim and about .65% Jewish. These figures may not be exactly correct, but there’s no question that all over Western Europe the number of Muslims in the population dwarfs the number of Jews, a situation that has had tremendous political repercussions.