Monday, July 23, 2007

Americans and Islam

The latest NEWSWEEK Poll paints a complicated portrait of attitudes toward America's Muslims.
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By Brian Braiker
Newsweek
Updated: 3:11 p.m. ET July 20, 2007

July 20, 2007 - Americans are largely accepting of their fellow citizens who are Muslims, but remain worried about radicals inside the United States, according to a new NEWSWEEK Poll—the first the magazine has conducted on attitudes toward Islamic Americans. Forty percent of those surveyed believe Muslims in the United States are as loyal to the U.S. as they are to Islam. (Thirty-two percent believe American Muslims are less loyal to the U.S.) But close to half (46 percent) of Americans say this country allows too many immigrants to come here from Muslim countries...

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