I tried following those links and couldn’t find the poll or the 157 pages. I think it’s bunk.
It is. It’s been presented in all kinds of disquises all over.
The convenient thing about Pew is that their stuff typically runs to several hundred pages of non-readability, so you can use it for whatever you want. It’s like the Obamacare-bill.
>>I tried following those links and couldn’t find the poll or the 157 pages. I think it’s bunk.
This is the report linked to in Hardraade’s post, but the full pdf is 226 pages, not 157 pages, and it does not cover Muslims in the U.S.:
http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-exec.aspx
I’m a bit baffled how they made their comparisons. U.S. Muslims simply aren’t among their poll targets.
Ah! I think I just found the answer:
And in the United States, a 2011 Pew Research Center survey found that nearly seven-in-ten Muslims (69%) say religion is very important to them. (For more comparisons with U.S. Muslims, see Appendix A.)
Appendix A: U.S. Muslims: Beliefs and Practices in a Global Context
http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-appendix-a.aspx