Toggle navigation Language:. Subscribe Audio Hub. Human Rights. In a report to the Council, he cited European surveys in and that showed that nearly four in 10 people held unfavourable views about Muslims. No one ideology is responsible for terrorism in the United States. Based on a Pew Research Study survey, there are an estimated 3. A Gallup poll found that the majority of Muslim-Americans say that they are loyal to the United States and are optimistic about the future even though they experience bias and discrimination.
Note that of the 2. A common perception is that Muslim women are oppressed, discriminated against and hold a subservient position in society. The role and status of Muslim women in society cannot be separated from the role of women in the larger society because women around the world of all races, religions and nationalities face inequality on many levels. Muslim women are not alone in this. The Quran explicitly states that men and women are equal in the eyes of God and forbids female infanticide, instructs Muslims to educate daughters as well as sons, insists that women have the right to refuse a prospective husband, gives women the right to divorce in certain cases, etc.
However, interpretation of gender roles specified in the Quran varies with different countries and cultures and in the Islamic world, there exist principles and practices that subjugate and oppress women e. Many contemporary women and men reject limitations put on women and reinterpret the Quran from this perspective. It is also important to understand that, similar to other religions, people in positions of power will sometimes use religion as an excuse to justify oppression of women.
The head scarf is often cited as an example of oppression. The Quran directs both men and women to dress with modesty but how this is interpreted and carried out varies a great deal. Many people think that Muslim women are forced to wear a hijab head scarf , niqab or burqa. While it is true that in some countries with significant Muslim populations women are forced to wear the hijab, this is not the reason Muslim women wear the hijab in most cases, particularly in the United States.
In fact, many women choose to wear a hijab, niqab or burqa on their own and do so for a variety of reasons including a sense of pride in being Muslim, a collective sense of identity or to convey a sense of self-control in public life. Since , eight countries have had Muslim women as their heads of state, including Turkey, Indonesia, Senegal, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh two different women , Pakistan and Mauritius. Many Muslim countries—including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia—have a higher percentage of women in national elected office than does the United States.
G, Dalia. Meet the nine Muslim women who ruled the nations. Goodstein, L. Muslims are loyal to U. The New York Times, August 2, Khan, M.
More than 5, Muslims serving in U. That one-third of those with no reported prejudice have an unfavorable opinion of Islam is alarming because it indicates that those who harbor no reported prejudice for the people maintain negative views about the religion.
People who display a personal prejudice toward Muslims are not negative about religion in general or minority religions overall. For example, Americans who say they are at least a little prejudiced against Muslims express favorable opinions about Judaism, regardless of the degree to which they hold prejudice against Muslims.
Familiarity with individual Muslims makes a small difference in reported levels of personal prejudice toward Muslims. Fifty-three percent of those Americans who say they hold no prejudice toward Muslims say they know someone who practices Islam. The greater their self-reported prejudice toward Muslims, the more likely Americans are to say most Muslims around the world do not want peace and are not accepting of other religions and of people of races other than their own.
Regardless of personal prejudice against Muslims, at least one in five Americans say that most Muslims around the world are not accepting of other religions and of people of different races other than their own. In fact, about one-third of those reporting no prejudice toward Muslims say Muslims around the world are not accepting of other religions. Gallup finds Muslim Americans, however, are among the most integrated religious groups in the U.
Gallup Religious Tolerance Index, which measures people's attitudes toward religious faiths different from their own and ranks survey respondents by three categories: Isolated, Tolerant, and Integrated people see sidebar for definitions. Among U. When examining religious tolerance globally, the U.
Respondents from sub-Saharan Africa are also most likely to explain the root causes of tensions between Muslim and Western societies as religious. Muslim respondents globally are no different from Western societies in their level of integration and openness to people of other faiths.
Data reported from through [7]. Albert L. Jim Harter and Julie Hawkins to measure Americans' attitudes toward religious faiths that are different from their own. The Index is based on respondents' level of agreement with the following five statements on a scale of "1" strongly disagree to "5" strongly agree :.
Isolated: Isolated individuals tend not to be members of any particular faith group, but if they are, they tend to believe in the truth of their perspective above all others. They do not want to know about other religions. They also neither respect nor feel respected by those of other faiths. Tolerant: Tolerant individuals have a "live-and-let-live" attitude toward people of other faiths, and they generally feel that they treat others of different faiths with respect.
However, they are not likely to learn from or about other religions. Integrated: Integrated individuals go beyond a "live-and-let-live" attitude and actively seek to know more about and learn from others of different religious traditions. They believe that most faiths make a positive contribution to society. Furthermore, integrated people not only feel they respect people from other faith traditions, but they also feel respected by them. In America, prejudice toward Muslim Americans exists among both men and women, young and old, uneducated and learned.
Still, there are some differences in prejudice levels within different demographic groups. Men are more likely than women, for example, to say they have some or a great deal of prejudice toward Muslims. Those who report a great deal of prejudice toward Muslims are more likely than those who report none or smaller levels of prejudice to have completed only a high school-level education.
And those who report a great deal of prejudice toward Muslims are more likely than those with lesser or no such prejudice to be married. Higher levels of prejudice toward Muslims do not correlate with age and urbanicity, though. As Americans' self-proclaimed prejudice toward Muslims increases, so too does the likelihood of claiming the Republican party as their political affiliation.
Gallup asked Americans whether they think Muslim Americans are loyal or not loyal to the U. Perceptions of disloyalty tend to fuel the flames of Islamophobia. If one believes that Muslims are not loyal, one may also believe that Muslims should be feared, not trusted, and not treated fairly.
A feeling that Muslim Americans are disloyal to the U. Women are more likely than men to think that Muslims in American are not loyal to the U. Those who think Muslim Americans are loyal to the country are younger than those who say Muslim Americans aren't loyal to the U. Americans who think their Muslim peers are loyal to the U. Specifically, those who say Muslim Americans are loyal to the country are more likely to say they themselves have confidence in the U.
The exception to this is Americans' confidence in the military, which is slightly greater among those who say Muslim Americans are not loyal to the U. However, most Americans say they have confidence in the military, regardless of their opinion about Muslim Americans' loyalty. Overall, one-third of Americans say they think Muslim countries have a very unfavorable opinion of the U. People who say Muslim Americans are not loyal to the U.
Overall, though, majorities of Americans who say Muslim Americans are loyal or not loyal to the U. Those who say Muslim Americans are not loyal to the U. Those who say Muslim Americans are loyal to the U. Two-thirds of Americans surveyed in this particular study say that religion is an important part of their daily lives. Gallup collected data in from representative samples in Germany, France, and the U.
And while majorities of the adults in these countries agree that people from minority groups enrich the cultural life of their nations, sizable minorities of these respondents express fear about certain aspects of Muslim culture.
Only the general population in the U.
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