Large minorities of Americans hold unfavorable views of Islam and Muslims

Evidence

A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey found that nearly half of Americans (46 percent) have an unfavorable opinion of “the Muslim world.” Another recent survey, this one from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, found that almost four in ten Americans will admit to having “unfavorable views of Islam.” And an ABC News Poll once found that more than one-third of Americans believe that mainstream Islam “encourages violence as a basic teaching.” — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 754

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 754
• XREF: connects to: Majorities in several Western countries hold negative views of Islam. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 30; Among American Muslims who said it has become more difficult to be a Muslim in the U.S. in recent years, the second most-answered reason for this was ‘negative media portrayals.’ In addition, 53% of Americans think that coverage of Islam and Muslims by American news organizations is generally unfair to Muslims and Islam.; Muslim Americans contributed to building America despite persistent Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 535 (+13 more)

Related

• Fifty-three percent of Americans hold an unfavorable opinion of Islam (similarity 0.89)
• Nearly half of American Muslims experienced anti-Muslim discrimination within a single year. (similarity 0.87)
• Majorities in several Western countries hold negative views of Islam. (similarity 0.85)
• Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010 (similarity 0.85)
• Among American Muslims who said it has become more difficult to be a Muslim in the U.S. in recent years, the second most-answered reason for this was ‘negative media portrayals.’ In addition, 53%… (similarity 0.84)
• Americans were nearly evenly split in their views of Islam in 2011 (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobes, not Muslims, constitute the gravest threat to American civil liberties (similarity 0.83)
• 53% of Americans think that coverage of Islam and Muslims by American news organizations is generally unfair to Muslims and Islam. (similarity 0.83)
• Sustained negative media discourse has shifted American public opinion against Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• American anti-Muslim sentiment is old but stayed politically latent until recently (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim America’s narrative is rooted in blackness, not Arab identity (similarity 0.82)
• A third to two-fifths of Americans endorse special restrictions on Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• Most Americans hold moderate mixed views on religion’s role in public life (similarity 0.82)
• Substantial minorities of Americans endorse curtailing Muslim civil liberties (similarity 0.82)
• A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Majorities of Americans endorsed profiling Muslims even while viewing Islam favorably #qualifies (0.55) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 82
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #expands (0.50)
• Muslims in the United States endure discrimination in their everyday lives #corroborates (0.50) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 32
• Anti-Muslim prejudice shapes Muslim-American identity formation from within #expands (0.45) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 709
• Hostile public scrutiny becomes internalized as the architecture of Muslim American identity #expands (0.40)
• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #expands (0.40) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460