American Muslim Poll 2017: Muslims at The Crossroads

American Muslim Poll 2017: Full Report       ISPU conducts objective, solution-seeking research that empowers American Muslims to develop their community and fully contribute to democracy and pluralism in the United States. Learn more about ISPU here.  

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ISPU report: A First Amendment Analysis of Anti-Sharia Initiatives

Executive Summary Ten years after September 11, 2001, the American Muslim community continues to be surrounded by a fear created and promoted mostly by a small group of anti-Muslim organizations and individuals. Collectively, these groups have spread their message in twenty-three states through books, reports, websites, and blogs. Other anti-Islam grassroots organizations have utilized this…

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COMPARING IMMIGRANT ASSIMILATION IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE

Jacob L. Vigdor, Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Executive Summary: This is the third in a series of Center for State and Local Leadership reports on the state of immigrant assimilation—the degree of similarity between the native- and foreign-born populations—in the United States. This report provides new information on the characteristics of newly…

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U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey

Executive Summary Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the…

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Muslims in Berlin, London, and Paris: Bridges and Gaps in Public Opinion

Gallup’s recent surveys of Muslims in London, Paris, and Berlin point to the need for greater understanding between Europe’s Muslim residents and the broader societies in which they live. But these surveys also offer plenty of evidence that the foundation for that understanding is already in place. Muslims in Europe: Basis for Greater Understanding Already…

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