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title: "Think Obama is A Muslim…Still"
description: "Since his appearance on the national scene, a consistent one-in-ten Americans say Barack Obama is a Muslim; another 35% say they do not know Obama's religion."
date: "2009-04-09"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/04/09/think-obama-is-a-muslimstill/"
---

# Think Obama is A Muslim…Still

President Barack Obama has been the dominating fixture in American politics for well over two years, but that doesn’t mean a majority of Americans can correctly identify his religion. In fact, 11% incorrectly say he is a Muslim, essentially the same as the one-in-ten Americans who have consistently said Obama is a Muslim in Pew Research surveys dating back to the presidential campaign. Only 48% correctly identify Obama as a Christian. Over a third of Americans (35%) say they do not know Obama’s religion, either because they do not know enough about him (22%), or because they have heard different things about his religion (13%); another 6% refused to answer. As was the case last fall, white evangelical Protestants (19%) and Republicans (17%) are among the most likely to view Obama as a Muslim.[Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1176/obama-muslim-opinion-not-changed)