On Tuesday night, Donald Trump was asked on Fox News’s Hannity about the assimilation of Muslim immigrants in American life and culture, and Trump replied that it is “pretty close” to “nonexistent.” Vox is here to set the record straight —
“Trump’s assertion that Muslims don’t assimilate is wrong: American Muslims are in fact more culturally integrated than European Muslims and say they identify more strongly with their American identity than their religious identity, according to a study from the Council on Foreign Relations:
The percentage of U.S. Muslims in individual income and education brackets tracks closely to that of the rest of the U.S. population, surveys suggest. According to a 2009 Gallup poll, U.S. Muslims have the second-highest level of education among major religious groups in the United States. Almost 50 percent of Muslims identify with religion before their U.S. identity (nearly half of U.S. Christians polled by Gallup also identified with their religion first).”
