There are a lot of Muslims in the USA, and a lot of other religious people. This is because in America you are free to worship God or believe whatever you wish. That is why people first came to the "New World".... to get away from dictators who told you how you MUST believe. In many other countries if you don't believe the way the government tells you to believe, or go to the government-approved churches, you can be fined or punished...perhaps by not getting good jobs, or going to prison. In a democracy, you are a free moral agent, and you don't have those restrictions put on you. You are not told how to dress, where to sit, where to work, nor where to worship. Men and women have the same rights to vote, work, drive, go to school, and raise their family the way they wish. Who wouldn't want to come to America or a free democracy?

There are a lot of everything in the united states. Mexicans, Muslims, Cubans, Hindus, Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, columbians, I think there are people from everywhere around the world. I can't speak for the Muslims that came to the united states and I can't say for sure why they came here but I'm thinking it's for the same reason everyone else comes to the U.S. opportunity. A better life.