Black Muslims: Sunni or Shia? #
June 30th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
According to Slate’s Explainer, most African-American Muslims — who actually identify as one or the other — are Sunnis.
A 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center found that among the several million Muslims in America, 20 percent are native-born African-Americans. Among those black Muslims, half identified themselves as Sunni—as Ellison does—and another third said they had no affiliation. There are a handful of predominantly black Shiite mosques in the United States, though they represent a small minority of all black Muslims.