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    5. Terrorism and concerns about extremism

    Since 2011, U.S. Muslims have become more concerned about extremism in the name of Islam around the world. At the same time, most believe there is little support for extremism within their own community, even as the general public disagrees. Indeed, Muslims are conflicted about the arrests of Muslims in the U.S. who are suspected […]

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    4. Political and social views

    The political profile of Muslim Americans is much the same today as it was when Pew Research Center first comprehensively surveyed this population a decade ago: Muslims constitute a strongly Democratic constituency. Three-quarters of Muslim voters say they cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and two-thirds of U.S. Muslims overall […]

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    Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac

    Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. She contributes to the Center’s domestic religion polls. Sciupac holds a master’s degree in international relations and conflict resolution from The George Washington University. She is a contributing author of many Pew Research Center reports, including “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” “Religion in Everyday Life,” […]

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    Appendix B: Survey methodology

    Muslim Americans constitute a population that is rare, dispersed and diverse. It includes many recent immigrants from multiple countries with different native languages who may have difficulty completing a public opinion survey in English. The intense attention paid to Muslims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in the U.S. and abroad, as well as the […]

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    1. Religious affiliation

    Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Central and Eastern Europe, and the majority religion in 10 of the 18 countries surveyed. Overall, nearly six-in-ten people in the region (57%) identify with this Christian tradition. Moldova and Greece have the highest Orthodox proportions in their populations, while Russia and Ukraine – the two largest countries surveyed […]