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A 2007 poll found that one Muslim in four thought the Government had staged the bombings and framed the Muslims convicted. [10] A 2011 study by Pew Research showed that 64% of Muslim Americans thought that there was not much or no support among them for extremism, while 6% thought there was a great deal, and 15% thought there was a fair amount ...
93% of interviewed Muslims think that homosexuality is morally wrong. 94% think that sex outside of marriage is morally wrong. 72% think that abortion is morally wrong. 51% think that western pop culture harms morality. 74% favor enshrining Sharia. Among these, 78% want religious judges to oversee family law; 57% want severe corporal ...
As a result of this network, Islam is now one of the most stigmatized religions, with only 42 percent of Americans having a favorable opinion of Islam, according to a 2021 Associated Press/Norc Center for Public Affairs Research poll. [5] Similarly, Muslims are one of the most negatively viewed religious groups in the United States, with ...
Hijab is commonly worn by Muslim women in the United States, and is a very distinctive cultural feature of Muslims in America. According to a Pew Research Center poll from 2011, 36% of Muslim American women reported wearing hijab whenever they were in public, with an additional 24% indicating they wore it most or some of the time, while only 40 ...
Polls conducted by Gallup and PEW in Muslim-majority countries indicate that most Muslims see no contradiction between democratic values and religious principles, desiring neither a theocracy, nor a secular democracy, but rather a political model where democratic institutions and values can coexist with the values and principles of Islam.
A poll reported in The Washington Post in September 2003 found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believed Saddam Hussein was probably personally involved in the attacks. [20] In May 2007 the New York Post published results of a Pew Research Center poll of more than 1,000 American Muslims. It found that 40 percent agreed that "Arabs carried ...
Gallup and Pew polls. Polls have found Muslim-Americans to report less violent views than any other religious group in America. 89% of Muslim-Americans claimed that the killing of civilians is never justified, compared to 71% of Catholics and Protestants, 75% of Jews, and 76% of atheists and non-religious groups.
Islam is one of the two largest religions in Nigeria. Nigeria also has the largest Muslim population in Africa. [ 1] In 2018, the CIA World Factbook estimated that 53.5% of Nigeria's population is Muslim. [ 2] Islam is predominantly concentrated in the northern half of the country, with a significant Muslim minority existing in the southern ...