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The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community Commissioned by the One Nation Bay Area Project MAY 2013 STUDY THE BAY AREA MUSLIM StUDY: ESTABLISHING IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY Commissioned by the One Nation Bay Area Project Farid Senzai, Ph.D. Hatem Bazian, Ph.D. Director of Research - ISPU, UC Berkeley Professor, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University Zaytuna College Co-Founder Institute for Social Policy and Understanding One Nation Bay Area The One Nation Bay Area project is a collaborative funded by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation and Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) in partnership with the One Nation Foundation. Over the past two years the One Nation Bay Area project: distributed almost $500,000 to support American Muslims and non-Muslims partnering on community issues to enhance civic engagement in the Bay Area Muslim community; supported convenings to strengthen relationships between American Muslim and non-Muslim community partners and generate knowledge to inform philanthropy; and commissioned the Bay Area Muslim Study—Establishing Identity and Community, a benchmark study to inform philanthropy, public agencies, and the private sector. The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) is an independent nonprofit think tank committed to education, research, and analysis of U.S. domestic and foreign policies issues, with an emphasis on topics related to the American Muslim community. For more information and to view our other reports, please visit www.ispu.org. © 2013 Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding normally does not take institutional positions on public policy issues. The views presented here do not necessarily reflect the views of the institute, its staff, or trustees. May 2013 STUDY About The Authors FARID SENZai is a fellow and the director of research at ISPU, as well as an assistant professor of political science at Santa Clara University. Dr. Senzai was previously a research associate at the Brookings Institution, where he studied American foreign policy toward the Middle East, and a research analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he worked on the Muslim Politics project. He served as a consultant for Oxford Analytica and the World Bank. At the present time, Dr. Senzai serves on the advisory board of The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, where he has contributed to several national and global surveys on Muslim attitudes. He is a co-author of Educating the Muslims of America (Oxford University Press, 2009). His most recent book is Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave, 2013). Dr. Senzai earned an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in politics and international relations from Oxford University. HatEM BAZian, a senior lecturer in the department of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley, is co-founder and Academic Affairs Chair at Zaytuna College, the first four-year liberal arts Muslim college in the United States. Dr. Bazian is founder and co-editor-in-chief of University of California, Berkeley’s Islamophobia Studies Journal. From 2002 to 2007, he served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic law and society, “Islam in America: Communities and Institutions,” “De-Constructing Islamophobia and Othering of Islam,” religious studies, and Middle Eastern studies. In addition to Berkeley, Dr. Bazian is a visiting professor in religious studies at Saint Mary’s College of California and adviser to University of California, Berkeley’s Religion, Politics, and Globalization Center. In the spring of 2009, he founded at Berkeley the Center for the Study and Documentation of Islamophobia, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of othering Islam and Muslims. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy and Islamic studies from University of California, Berkeley. Acknowledgements This research project has benefited from the time and contributions of many individuals. In particular, we would like to thank Reem Javed for her assistance with the focus groups and analysis of the transcripts; Ashwak Hauter for her assistance in recruiting the focus group’s participants, Daniel Hummel for his assistance with the qualitative analysis, Anwar Hijaz for her detailed assistance with the quantitative analysis, Paula Thompson and Ahmed Zamani for helping coordinate the surveys, and Ziaulhaq Emal for his assistance with the translation and survey research. We also want to thank Rasheeda Plenty, Nadia, Adnan Patel, Suzy Abu-Nie, and Naheed Hasnat for their assistance with the data entry. Thanks also to the students at Zaytuna College and University of California, Berkeley Asian American Studies 128AC, “Muslims in America,” for assisting with the survey across the Bay Area. We would like to thank Abid Malik and his team at the Strategic Research Circle for their assistance with Bay Area maps. We would also like to thank the many individuals at ISPU, especially Siwar Bizri, Shireen Zaman, Hena Khan, Zahra Jamal and Alejandro Beutel, for their support at various stages of this project. In addition, we wish to thank the One Nation Bay Area project partners, including Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Marin Community Foundation, the Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and the San Francisco Foundation for providing a generous grant to make this report possible. Special thanks to the One Nation Steering Committee, including: Tessa Rouverol Callejo, Prasanjit Gupta, Manuel J. Santamaria, Mauricio Palma, Shirin Vakharia, Laila Mehta, Mahvash Hassan, and Lucia Corral Peña. 2 The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community May 2013 STUDY A CALL TO ActiON: A Letter from the Funders The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most diverse regions in the United States. More than 30% of its population is foreign-born, and close to two-thirds of its residents under the age of 18 are the children of immigrants. Nearly 250,000 Muslims–one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the country–live, study, volunteer, work and contribute to the economies and communities of the Bay Area. With a history of supporting and funding the American Muslim community, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, the Marin Community Foundation and Asian Americans/ Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) partnered with the One Nation Foundation to create the One Nation Bay Area project in 2010. The One Nation Bay Area project complements the community foundations’ and AAPIP’s social justice and interfaith understanding, civic engagement and immigrant integration grantmaking portfolios. The One Nation Bay Area project commissioned the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding to help us—and the Muslim community members themselves—better understand who is in the community, what languages they speak, what their educational attainment levels are, what their immigration status is, what the levels of employment are, what civic engagement means to them, and to honor their resilience in the face of continued misperceptions about the American Muslim community. This benchmark study provides historical, religious, and cultural context for a community that is often misunderstood and misrepresented – in our schools and communities. For the first time, this report gathers quantitative and qualitative research about the needs of the Bay Area Muslim community and suggests recommendations for philanthropy, public agencies, and the private sector. We invite you to join us in responding to this study’s call to partner with American Muslims in the Bay Area in order to leverage their strength and resilience, and to address the complex challenges of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, socioeconomically diverse community of enormous potential. Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D. Sandra Hernández, M.D. CEO and President Chief Executive Officer Silicon Valley Community Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Thomas Peters, Ph.D. Peggy Saika President and CEO President and Executive Director Marin Community Foundation Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy 3 4 The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community May 2013 STUDY Table of Contents 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Benchmark Nature of the Study Methodology & Limitations Key Findings Challenges Strengths Recommendations 19 INTRODUCTION Benchmark Nature of the Report Methodology Research Limitations 25 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF BAY AREA MUSLIMS Bay Area Centers and Institutional Development Pre-1980 1980-1990 1990-2012 Civic and Cultural Institutions Outside the Mosque 39 DEMOGRAPHIC DATA Demographic Information Race and Ethnicity Education Socioeconomic Status Community Health and Government Assistance 59 IDENTITY Religious Identity Hijab (Headscarf) Racial and Ethnic Identity Profession as Identity 73 MUSLIM CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Types of Civic Engagement 95 CHALLENGES External Challenges Internal Challenges 107 STRENGTHS 109 RECOMMENDATIONS For Muslim Community Leaders and Institutions For Foundations and Philanthropists For Educators and Academics For Policymakers Future Research and Closing the Gap 115 APPENDIX A: Terms 117 APPENDIX B: Questionnaires and Focus Group Form 131 APPENDIX C: Community Organizations and Businesses 5 TABLES AND GRAPHS
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