Sixth Pillar of Islam as the sixth pillar of Islam. These are varying beliefs and most Sunni Muslims believe that exactly five pillars constitute valid Islam, but there is sufficient speculation between the duty to do good (see above), jihad and khums as to which, if any, moral ethic could or should be acknowledged as the sixth pillar of Islam. Sixth Pillar of Islam Shi'a Islam tends to incorporate the sixth pillar of Islam, referring to an addition to the universally held five pillars of Islam. In his book on Islam, walid rafas says that in earlier times, many Muslims believed that there were
Islam in the United States into prison as non-Muslims. He also says that 80% of the prisoners who "find faith" while in prison convert to Islam. These converted inmates are mostly African American, with a small but growing Hispanic minority. Waller also asserts that many converts are radicalized by outside Islamist groups linked to terrorism, but other experts suggest that when radicalization does occur it has little to no connection with these outside interests. There were calculated to be 2.595 million Muslim adherents across the United States in 2010. Islamic populations are 0.6% of the US population per Fareed Zakaria quoting Pew Research Center, 2010.