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.:Friday, July 15, 2005:.

Muslims in Oregon

Islam in Oregon and America -- The Facts

FACT 1
There are an estimated 6 to 10 thousand Muslims in Oregon. The Muslim community in Oregon is made up of people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and national origins.

FACT 7
There are 7 mosques and Islamic centers in Oregon

taken from http://www.metpdx.org/resources/

hmm 7 masjids?

Abu Bakr in Eugene
Salman Al Farisi in Corvallis
Assaber in Portland
Bilal in Portland
Islamic Center of Portland

There used to be the Masjid in Ashland but thats pretty much shut down now.. and there is the Shia run masjid there too.. but I dont think thats what they are counting.. There is Shia masjid in Portland.. and I think a somali masjid? or was that seattle.. They are trying to get one in Salem I heard.. but ya I can only list 5 :/.

hmm I just went to IslamicFinder.. intresting results

http://www.islamicfinder.org/cityIslamicCenter.php?city=Portland&state=OR&country=usa&lang=

Aurora, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Portland, Tualatin are what I call Portland.

White city and Ashland are same thing to me.. (used to live there btw).. white city = run by shia now.. and Al-Haramain in ashland is closed down.

Klamath Falls I had forgotten about. MashaAllah they have some nice muslims there.. its south east oregon, close to ashland kind of.

Salem, like I had said they are still trying to establish a masjid there

Eugene, corvallis, exactly as I said

Milton-Freewater LOL!!!!! thats next to hermiston.. my dad lived there for a while.. and yes he met the"muslim" there.

But I think the most shocking thing for me was finding out that La Grande has a MSA! MashaAllah, we should have gotten in contact with them when we were in eastern oregon.

Now coming to the other fact, 6-10 thousand muslims? Well oregon is big... but to be honest I can't say I've seen that many... maybe before but not now.. Corvallis is in the hundreds, I'd say 500-600 not counting the really little kids.. Portland has a few thousand.. Eugene used to be packed, now its in the hundreds maybe. Ashland/white city isnt even 50... same with Salem... the ones I know from salem at least, and I'm on a salem muslims mailing list.. Klamath falls MAYBE 70-100 I'm not sure.. and as far as eastern oregon goes, it cant be much.. So I just dont see where all these thousands are coming from.. Other than Portland..

And yes I dont have anything better to do than figure out the muslim popluation of Oregon :)

chotu-meyeh @ 7/15/2005 11:22:00 AM #|

Comments:

LOL! Well, we need someone to tell us these facts! I thought that there aren't very many Muslims in Oregon, and the majority of them were in Portland. Thanks for laying out the facts! :-D

# posted by

Hina : 7/15/2005 12:41 PM

Well thats the truth. There aren't many muslims in Oregon, especially active ones. And something needs to be done about it. Honestly, I remember a couple years ago how active everyone was. All the shaykhs they would invite.. The Summer camps Portland would organize, now its just so dead. So yes, we might not be alot, but we are enough to make things happen. Some of the people in charge get on my nerves to be honest, they simply get in the way of things. Ahh alhamdulilah 'ala kulli haal. And I still will not beleive there are 10 thousan muslims in Oregon.

# posted by

chotu-meyeh : 7/15/2005 2:33 PM

Yeah, there doesn't look like there are a lot. I remember that the Muslims/musjid from Eugene would invite us for their Eid party and it was exciting and I felt happy to see so many Muslims there. I agree that these days, they aren't as active as they used to be years before. Insh'Allah, hopefully things will be better in the future.

# posted by

Hina : 7/15/2005 3:32 PM