American belief that Islam encourages violence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011.

Evidence

“Islamophobia has become the accepted form of racism in America,” I was quoted as saying in the August 2010 TIME Magazine cover story. “You can always take a potshot at Muslims or Arabs and get away with it.” At the time, a joint TIME-Abt SRBI poll found that 46 percent of Americans believe Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence against nonbelievers. Only 37 percent claimed to know a Muslim American. Overall, 61 percent opposed the Park51 project, while just 26 percent were in favor of it. Just 23 percent said it would be a symbol of religious tolerance, while 44 percent said it would be an insult to those who died on 9/11. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 565 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Most Americans and Britons seemingly accepted that the inherent fanaticism of (male) Muslims produced their violent success.; Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010 — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 565

Related

• Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010 (similarity 0.94)
• American Islamophobic attitudes sharply worsened in the decade after 2001. (similarity 0.86)
• Fewer than one in a million Western Muslims per year turned to political violence (similarity 0.83)
• American perceptions of Islam turned sharply more negative after 2001 (similarity 0.82)
• Most Americans and Britons seemingly accepted that the inherent fanaticism of (male) Muslims produced their violent success. (similarity 0.79)
• Coordinated armed protests at American mosques continued years after Park51 (similarity 0.79)
• Americans were nearly evenly split in their views of Islam in 2011 (similarity 0.79)
• Nearly half of American Muslims experienced anti-Muslim discrimination within a single year. (similarity 0.79)
• Half of American Muslims also received positive support for their faith. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010 #corroborates (0.85) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 565