Putting things in perspective

This Venn diagram by Mark Schmidt made the rounds last week as a great illustration of how many people we’re talking about when we discuss Muslims, Muslim-Americans and al-Qaida.

With the Qur’an burning Florida church in the news lately, I thought it would be useful to update it:

Credit to Technipol for the to-scale diagram.

Update: We updated the graph to include a more accurate estimate of the Muslim-American population. See the Pew Forum report, “Mapping the Global Muslim Population” for more information.

Update II: Added credit for the original image.

2 Responses to “Putting things in perspective”

1. PeterK says:

   September 9, 2010 at 8:03 pm

   where do you get 18 million Muslim-Americans? US Census doesn’t ask an individual’s religion. so where is that number coming from?

   the most accurate guesstimate is under 10 million. even CAIR estimates only 7 million in 2010

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States
2. Nick says:

   September 10, 2010 at 11:21 am

   Thanks for the note Peter. We’re looking into this.