American perspectives of Islam may be tainted due to a lack of exposure and an inability of U.S. media outlets to adopt a holistic approach of global coverage, experts say. According to the American Religious Identity Survey, there are an estimated 1.5 million practicing Muslims in the United States, dwarfed by the estimated 224 million practicing Christians, 38 million nonreligious or secular Americans and the four million practicing Judaism. This 1.5 million in the U.S. is miniscule compared to the one billion Muslims living in the world, according to polling data from Adherent.
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