Anil Dash is having some trouble with his math. My response:

"Hindus make up about 3% of the U.S. population"? That sounds a bit high!

According to this: sidebar, they're 1 million out of almost 300 million Americans.

That's 0.3% and, according to another statistic they quote, it's only 2% in New York City.

(The US Census, AFAIK, does not tally religious affiliation.)

Here are some other estimates: 1.5 million, 1 to 1.3 million — both a far cry from the 8 or 9 million you claim.

Groups all have an incentive to exaggerate their numbers, but even Hindu sources don't claim they're 3% of the US!

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