Items of Interest September 5, 2011 Issue

Poll confirms Muslim Americans’ positive view of US

Henry J. Reske

“Gallup poll: Most Muslim Americans loyal to US” Courtesy of Newsmax.com. August 2, 2011.

With the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaching, 93 percent of Muslim Americans say they are loyal to the United States. The view of Muslim loyalty is shared by a majority of the major religious groups in the United States, a new poll examining Muslim attitudes has found.

The poll, conducted by a Gallup-affiliated research group, found that 80 percent of Jews believed Muslim Americans were loyal, a view shared by 59 percent of Catholics and 56 percent of Protestants. It also found that Muslim and Jewish Americans had similar views on the Mideast and Al Qaeda.

“Muslim Americans and Jewish Americans—the two major US religious groups with the biggest stake in the decades-long Middle East conflict—have similar views about how that conflict might be resolved,” a summary of the report said. “A substantial majority of Muslim Americans (81 percent) and Jewish Americans (78 percent) support a future in which an independent Palestinian state would coexist alongside of Israel.

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