Gallup poll reveals common ground for Jewish and Muslim Americans

HorryForThree · Aug 9, 2011

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haaretz article said:

A recent Gallup poll has revealed that not only do Muslim Americans and Jewish Americans have similar views regarding how the Palestinian-Israeli conflict might be resolved, but Muslim Americans are significantly more moderate than often believed.

A substantial majority of Muslim Americans (81%) and Jewish Americans (78%) support a future in which an independent Palestinian state would coexist alongside Israel.

According to the poll, 89% of Muslim Americans say there is never a justification for attacks on civilians, compared to 79% of Mormon Americans, 75% of Jewish Americans, and 71% of Protestant and Catholic Americans. It was also found that the frequency with which Muslim Americans — or any other faith group — attend religious services has no effect on whether they justify violence against civilians.

Despite this surprisingly high Muslim opposition to attacks against civilians, most Americans of other faiths, according to the poll, feel Muslim Americans’ do not speak out often enough against terrorism. Of the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Mormon Americans surveyed, no more than about one-third and as few as one-quarter believe U.S. Muslims are sufficiently vocal in condemning terrorism.

This statistic is in blatant contradiction with the statistic showing that 72% of Muslim Americans believe that they are, in fact, outspoken in their condemnation of terror.

This mismatch may suggest that U.S. Muslims simply have not found the appropriate outlets to make themselves heard. These statistics also reflect the frustration Muslim Americans often express that their repeated condemnations of terrorism seem to go unheard or unnoticed.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, said Tuesday that “the findings of this up-to-date Gallup poll prove that the projects that we have been running for the past several years throughout the U.S. geared toward bringing Jews and Muslims together were successful and achieved their goal.”
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Other interesting findings:
-When asked whether they believed Muslims in America were sympathetic to Al-Qaeda, 92% of Muslims said they dont believe that Muslims in America are, 75% of those with no religion/Atheist/Agnostic said they dont believe Muslims in America are, and 70% of Jews said it. Only 56% of the Protestants and 57% of the Mormons polled said they believe Muslims in America are not sympathetic to Al-Qaeda.

-Muslim Americans have the highest approval of Obama and had the lowest approval of Bush.

-Muslim Americans are the most likely to have confidence in the honesty of elections.

-Muslim Americans have the lowest level of confidence in the military (70%); the second lowest was Nonreligionists with a confidence of 79% in the military. Every other group had at minimum 91% confidence. These two groups also have the lowest confidence in the FBI (Muslims at 60%, Nonreligionists at 69%)

Across the board, Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons tended to differ the most from Muslim American opinions, whereas Jews and Nonreligionists tended to share more common ground.

The full report is available at this link

On a sidenote, for all the Jewish CF members observing Tisha B'Av, hope Tisha B'Av is going well (sorry not sure what the appropriate greeting is given that its a day of sadness/mourning....).

Space Ghost · Aug 9, 2011

A couple notes:

Why are we dragging religious sects into government issues? We should not be interested in the opinions of religious sects, regardless of who they are.

This poll means nothing. Its easy to voice your opinion when you can parade around in freedom 4000 miles away.

ChievousFTFace · Aug 9, 2011

Space Ghost said: ↑

A couple notes:

Why are we dragging religious sects into government issues? We should not be interested in the opinions of religious sects, regardless of who they are.

This poll means nothing. Its easy to voice your opinion when you can parade around in freedom 4000 miles away.
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Nothing wrong with calling out those who commit babbling and incoherent lies about certain religious groups in America. Considering that a certain party loves to pray on Islamaphobic fears, the statistics clearly prove them wrong.

Your panties... untwist them.

HorryForThree · Aug 9, 2011

Space Ghost said: ↑

A couple notes:

Why are we dragging religious sects into government issues? We should not be interested in the opinions of religious sects, regardless of who they are.

This poll means nothing. Its easy to voice your opinion when you can parade around in freedom 4000 miles away.
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Not sure how a survey 'drags religious sects into government issues'....

Whether we should "care" about the opinions of religious sects, or any demographic group for that matter, is a matter of social relevance. Regardless of whether religious-based thinking is right or not, belief (or nonbelief) is an integral part of the American social landscape, and recognizing what disparate groups feel on issues enhances understanding across the pluralistic spectrum of this country.

In that sense, acknowledging others opinions and recognizing them serves to make us a more tolerant nation, which, if thats even an objective, means something....

As for the ease of voicing an opinion whilst parading around 4000 miles away, not sure who you're talking about?

Carl Herrera · Aug 9, 2011

Upon reading the thread title, my first guesses were "hummus" and "female mustache."

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