A total of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making up almost half (46%) of the nearly 85,000 refugees who entered the country in that period.
Israel has been a Jewish-majority country since its founding in 1948, and its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities โ including some groups within the Jewish community โ has persisted as a hotly debated topic throughout the nationโs history.
There are striking differences in the extent to which people think the Quran should influence their nationโs laws, according to surveys across 10 countries with significant Muslim populations.
While significant shares of Israeli Arabs and Jews are optimistic about the prospect of a two-state solution, those who would live in this new independent state โ the Arabs currently in the Palestinian territories โ are less optimistic about it.