A plurality of Americans (45%) say Islam is no more likely than other faiths to encourage violence among its believers.

Only one-in-five Americans (19%) say they think of themselves as belonging to a minority because of their religious beliefs.

Nearly half of Americans (45%) personally know a Muslim, slightly more than in November 2001, when 38% said they personally knew a Muslim.

A slim majority of Americans (53%) know the Muslim name for God is Allah, and a similar number (52%) can correctly name the Koran as the Islamic sacred text.