Most Americans endorse surveillance of Muslims even while believing Islam is peaceful.
Evidence
According to a 2010 Gallup Poll survey, 71 percent of Americans supported profiling individuals who fit a terrorist profile based on age, gender, and ethnicity (Jones 2010). While this profile of a terrorist did not mention religion, another poll conducted by Quinnipiac University in 2012 found that 58 percent of registered New Yorkers felt that the NYPD had done nothing wrong to Muslims, even after it had been criticized for its extensive surveillance of Muslims (Boyette 2012). According to the survey, 54 percent of respondents claimed they held a positive view of Islam and 65 percent said mainstream Islam was a religion of peace, yet 58 percent still felt surveilling Muslims was an acceptable practice. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 82
Categorization
- SEED: The finding that warm views of Islam coexist with endorsing its surveillance suggests threat frames are operationally detached from prejudice — an angle for the algorithmic-neutrality argument.
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
Related
- Majorities of Americans approved of Muslim surveillance even while holding positive views of Islam. (similarity 0.91)
- Majorities of Americans endorsed profiling Muslims even while viewing Islam favorably (similarity 0.90)
- NYPD’s anti-Muslim surveillance produced zero terrorism leads over six years (similarity 0.81)
- Most Americans accept unjust profiling to prevent terrorism. (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-Muslim surveillance produced no terrorism leads despite six years of spying (similarity 0.79)
- Muslims in the US are ordinary citizens who mirror the general population (similarity 0.79)
- Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (similarity 0.78)