Cited by 19% of Muslim Americans, prejudice and discrimination lead the list of the biggest problems that U.S. Muslims say they face, followed by being viewed as terrorists, ignorance about Islam and negative stereotyping.
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.
Slightly more than half of the U.S. public (53%) say they have a favorable opinion of both Mormons and Muslim Americans, although most say they know little or nothing about either faith.
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.
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.
That’s the percentage of American Muslims who identify with Sunni Islam, 22% say they are just Muslim without any particular affiliation, and 16% identify with Shia Islam.