Nearly half of Americans believed Islam encourages violence in 2010

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

By the end of 2016, 53 percent of Republicans believed almost all or about half of Muslims are anti-American. Nearly half of all Americans believed that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 863

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 565; Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 863
• XREF: connects to: Most Americans and Britons seemingly accepted that the inherent fanaticism of (male) Muslims produced their violent success.; American belief that Islam encourages violence nearly doubled between 2001 and 2011.; Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad: A Cause of…, 75 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad #exemplifies (0.65) — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad, 75
• Both Americans and Britons held Islam a perennial menace by its proselytizing and violence #corroborates (0.60)
• Muslim Americans bear collective guilt for unrelated Muslim terrorists #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 346
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. #complicates (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480
• Religious identity replaced ethnicity as the marker making Muslim Americans seen as anti-American #expands (0.60)
• Post-war Middle East events made violence central to US Muslim depictions #expands (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 521
• Domestic violence history predicts violence better than Muslim identity does. #complicates (0.55)
• Majorities of Americans endorsed profiling Muslims even while viewing Islam favorably #qualifies (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 82
• Islamic religious piety inversely correlates with attraction to violent extremist groups. #contradicts (0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 476
• Most American Muslims condemn extremism and are satisfied with life in America #contradicts (0.45)
• A minority of Americans and Britons valued Islam despite dominant fear-based publications. #contradicts (0.45) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 117