Posted on 09/14/2016 5:42:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
Of 1,027 Catholics polled, only 14% said they had favorable views of Islam and one in three said they had either very or somewhat unfavorable views
Only 14% of American Catholics have a favorable view of Muslims and Catholic media outlets tend to have a bias against Muslims, a study has found.
The findings, carried out by the Bridge initiative, a multi-year research project that focuses on Islamophobia at Georgetown University, conducted research on how mainstream and Catholic media consumption correlates to respondents’ perceptions of Islam.
Of the 1,027 self-identified Catholics polled, only 14% said they had favorable views of Islam and one in three said they had either very or somewhat unfavorable views. However, those who know Muslims personally – only three out of 10 respondents, which is less than the national average – had far more positive views of Muslims. Those who did not know a Muslim were twice as likely to have very unfavorable views.
Father Patrick Ryan of the Society of Jesus, McGinley professor of religion at Fordham University, said Catholic people’s view on Islam was unfortunately similar to the mainstream Christian American view. They tend to be, “rather hostile to Muslims with perceptions colored by things like 9/11 and the persecution of Christians in places like Syria”.
Inherent biases were also found among certain Catholic media outlets. Half of the time the word Islamic was mentioned between October 2014 and September 2015 in prominent Catholic media outlets, it was in relation to the Islamic State. More than 60% of readers of outlets like the Catholic World Report and Patheos Catholic Blogs said they had unfavorable views of Muslims. However, the authors note only a fraction of respondents consume Catholic media regularly.
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Surely you jest?
Probably only 14% of Americans have a favorable view of Islam.
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This is a joke, right>?!
It’s almost like they watch the news and read the articles and have come to the understandably logical conclusion that most terrorists these days are mooselimbs....
No $hit, Sherlock.
Golly ... I wonder why.
That is encouraging. That tells me that most Catholics are not listening to Francis the talking dope.
So many US Catholics are rational?
This is news?
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia
in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly
systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of
property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded
sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its
dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must
belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or
a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam
has ceased to be a great power among men.""Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the
brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence
of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund,
Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread
throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were
it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science
against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might
fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."-- Winston Churchill
Seriously? No f’ing way! I thought Catholics voted overwhelmingly for Barry Obama both times. And Barry says Muslims are our BFFs. And everybody knows Barry doesn’t lie. Right? Boy, boy! Catholics are overwhelmingly stupid.
If you are Catholic and voted for Barry and are offended, Have a Coke & a smile, sit down and STFU.
If you are Catholic and didn’t vote for Barry and offended, ease accept my apologies. No offense was intended.
To favor islam you must accept rape, incest, murder, mayhem and disbelief in reality.
Liberals who know how they are required to think and those who fear that the poll is sponsored by CAIR and wish to keep their heads in the vicinity of their shoulders.
Bias - it’s bias. Not an opinion formed after observation and reflection over and extended period of time. Just bias.
Gee when the muzzies are putting them in cages and lighting them on fire, hanging them upside down like meat and silting their throats the list of what they do to Catholics is endless.......gee why would Catholics not have a positive view of sharia?..............hard to figure that out.
14% do not understand Islam.
Who, I mean WHO would have a positive view of Muslims?
Seriously, WHO?
They need to read their own catechism.
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