Returning for its fourth year, ISPU’s annual poll surveys Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, white Evangelicals, and those that consider themselves non-affiliated to compare attitudes across religious groups. Triumphs and tribulations punctuated the year leading up to ISPU’s fourth annual poll. Record-breaking voter turnout at the 2018 midterm elections led to the historic election of a diverse new class of Congress. At the same time, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the travel ban, and the country faced the longest ever government shutdown. It was against this backdrop that ISPU’s annual poll charts the attitudes and policy preferences of everyday Americans. American Muslim Poll 2019 offers the public, policymakers, and researchers rare depth and breadth of analysis along with a set of data-driven recommendations.
This year’s survey also includes ISPU’s second Islamophobia Index (II), created in partnership with Georgetown’s The Bridge Initiative. Building on previous research, we use the II to examine and tease out factors that predict and prevent Islamophobia.
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Returning for its fourth year, ISPU’s annual poll surveys Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, white Evangelicals, and those that consider themselves non-affiliated to compare attitudes across religious groups. Triumphs and tribulations punctuated the year leading up to ISPU’s fourth annual poll. Record-breaking voter turnout at the...
This is a summary of the key findings of ISPU’s fourth annual poll, which surveys Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, white Evangelicals, and those that consider themselves non-affiliated to compare attitudes across religious groups. Triumphs and tribulations punctuated the year leading up to ISPU’s fourth annual...
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While Muslims have the lowest levels of Islamophobia as a group, they are not immune to internalizing anti-Muslim stereotypes.
Though unwanted sexual advances from a faith leader are equally prevalent across communities, Muslims are one of the most likely groups to report incidents to law enforcement.
Muslims score highest on dimensions that reflect private spirituality and lower on the one that requires public risk.
American Muslims are significantly more likely than the general public to believe that poverty is primarily due to circumstances beyond one’s control.
Nearly 1 in 5 married Muslims report being in an interracial relationship.
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May 1, 2019 – ISPU Director of Research Dalia Mogahed presents key findings from American Muslim Poll 2019 at NYU-Washington DC. This summary is followed by a discussion with moderator Mehdi Hasan and panelists John Esposito, Walter Ruby, and Ibram Kendi.
Click here to download all 24 graphs and figures from our 2019 survey.
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