Stoning Adulterers
About eight-in-ten Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan endorse the stoning of people who commit adultery.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About eight-in-ten Muslims in Egypt and Pakistan endorse the stoning of people who commit adultery.
The view that suicide attacks against civilians are never justified is most widespread in Pakistan and Turkey, where 80% and 77%, respectively, share this opinion.
Young adults struggle with questions about politics, such as who the next speaker of the House will be.
A majority of Pakistanis see India as the greatest threat to their country.
Majorities or pluralities in 12 of 22 nations disapprove of how President Obama has dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Just a little more than a third of Pakistanis have heard about drone attacks targeting leaders of extremist organizations in their country.
Publics in 18 of 22 countries disagree with the notion that a university education is more important for a boy than for a girl.
Muslim publics overwhelmingly support educating girls and boys equally.
Compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, Russians are far less concerned about the potential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.
About one-third of the countries in the world — 64 nations — have high or very high restrictions on religion.
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