A Pew Research poll taken in November of 2011 (a couple months after 9/11) showed that only 17% of Americans didn’t like Muslims. Polls taken since then, throughout the West, reveal a trend against Muslims:
-3/09 ABC-Post poll on who “doesn’t like Muslims”: All Americans, 48%; conservatives, 65%; liberals, 40% (even liberals!).
-2/10 Le Parisien poll: 54% believe Islam is anti-Western Culture.
-03-01-10, Financial Times poll: Europeans oppose the burka, the symbol of Islam: France, 70% oppose; Spain, 65% oppose; Italy, 60% oppose; UK, 57% oppose.
-3/12/10 The Sun: US State Department says Muslims face increased societal resentment in Europe based on the belief that Islam is not compatible with Western values.
-10/17/10 BBC News: Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says. A recent survey suggested more than 30% of people believed the country was "overrun by foreigners".
-9/6/11 CNN reporting on The Public Religion Research Institute survey in conjunction with the Brookings Institution: "Nearly half of Americans would be uncomfortable with a woman wearing a burqa, a mosque being built in their neighborhood or Muslim men praying at an airport. 41% would be uncomfortable if a teacher at the elementary school in their community were Muslim. 47% of survey respondents said the values of Islam are at odds with American values.
-3/7/12 BBC: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working worse and worse".
-3/09 ABC-Post poll on who “doesn’t like Muslims”: All Americans, 48%; conservatives, 65%; liberals, 40% (even liberals!).
-2/10 Le Parisien poll: 54% believe Islam is anti-Western Culture.
-03-01-10, Financial Times poll: Europeans oppose the burka, the symbol of Islam: France, 70% oppose; Spain, 65% oppose; Italy, 60% oppose; UK, 57% oppose.
-3/12/10 The Sun: US State Department says Muslims face increased societal resentment in Europe based on the belief that Islam is not compatible with Western values.
-10/17/10 BBC News: Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says. A recent survey suggested more than 30% of people believed the country was "overrun by foreigners".
-9/6/11 CNN reporting on The Public Religion Research Institute survey in conjunction with the Brookings Institution: "Nearly half of Americans would be uncomfortable with a woman wearing a burqa, a mosque being built in their neighborhood or Muslim men praying at an airport. 41% would be uncomfortable if a teacher at the elementary school in their community were Muslim. 47% of survey respondents said the values of Islam are at odds with American values.
-3/7/12 BBC: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is "working worse and worse".
