Muslim Americans Support for U.S. War on Terror
A relatively low number of U.S. Muslims (26%) view the U.S.-led war on terrorism as a sincere effort to reduce international terrorism.
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A relatively low number of U.S. Muslims (26%) view the U.S.-led war on terrorism as a sincere effort to reduce international terrorism.
Among the 47 nations and political entities surveyed in the latest Pew Global Attitudes report, the great majority (40) say that women are as good as or better than men as political leaders.
A few months before the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, only 9% of Pakistanis said that suicide attacks and other forms of violence against civilians are often or sometimes justified, a sharp decline from the 41% who expressed this view in 2004.
A look at the public’s news interests over the past year shows continuing differences between women and men in the types of news stories that they follow very closely.
That’s the number of Pakistanis who say they are very or somewhat worried that the US could become a military threat to their country.
That’s the small proportion of Pakistanis who say they support America’s anti-terror campaign; nearly six-in-ten oppose it.
That’s the small fraction of Pakistanis who say they have a favorable view of America in the latest Pew Global Attitudes poll.
That’s the percentage of Italians who voice concern about immigration, the highest share of any of the publics in the latest Pew Global Attitudes 47-nation survey.
Support for suicide bombings in defense of Islam declined by half or more in Lebanon, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia over the last five years, according to a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey.
About a third of the Lebanese public (34%) now feels that suicide bombings are often or sometimes justified in the defense if Islam, a large decline from the 74% who said so in 2002.
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