Half of American Muslims also received positive support for their faith.

Evidence

One of the few silver linings of this Pew study was that, alongside the reports of discrimination, nearly half of Muslims surveyed (49 percent) said that someone had expressed positive support for them because of their religion as well. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 265

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 265

Related

• One in four Britons expressed hostility toward Muslims in Pew surveys. (similarity 0.81)
• Americans were nearly evenly split in their views of Islam in 2011 (similarity 0.80)
• Nearly half of American Muslims experienced anti-Muslim discrimination within a single year. (similarity 0.80)
• Muslims are about one percent of the US population but growing fast (similarity 0.79)
• Most American Muslims condemn extremism and are satisfied with life in America (similarity 0.79)
• American belief that Islam encourages violence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011. (similarity 0.78)
• Muslims in the US are ordinary citizens who mirror the general population (similarity 0.78)
• Sustained negative media discourse has shifted American public opinion against Muslims (similarity 0.78)
• Pew and Gallup data show Muslim Americans are fully integrated into US society (similarity 0.78)