A CBS News poll conducted in 2006 found that 45 percent of Americans had a negative view of Islam.

As USA Today reports, over the next two decades the number of Muslims in the U.S. will go from less than 1 percent of the population to 1.7 percent, a numerical increase from 2.6 million people in 2010 to 6.2 million in 2030.

Read a May 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center that interviewed more than 55,000 Muslims and estimated the U.S. Muslim population at 2.35 million.

A June 12, 2006, New York Times article (posted at the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee site) says that Arab-Americans, since 9/11, worry more about overzealous immigration enforcement and racial profiling by government authorities than they do about hate crimes. Federal agents have visited Arab-American communities around the country, interviewing a broad spectrum of people, many of whom […]

On April 23, 2010, Lifeway Research released a survey showing that Protestant pastors in the U.S. have a negative view of Islam and more than half agree with Franklin Graham’s statement that Islam is an “evil” religion.

Read an April 22, 2010, post at Religion Dispatches by Hussein Rashid, a Muslim theologian and widely cited commentator, who says the RevolutionMuslim.com leaders who sent a warning to  South Park creators about censoring inappropriate content do not understand or represent Islam.

Read an April 22, 2010, Christianity Today blog post about Franklin Graham’s rescinded invitation to a Pentagon prayer service due to his comments about Islam.  

Nasser Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture in the history, theory and criticism section of the architecture department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is avidly interested in culture and its historical manifestations in architecture. His field is Islamic architectural history, and he is immersed in the history, languages and culture of the Islamic […]

Watch Gallup Senior Analyst Dalia Mogahed’s presentation on the relationship between Muslims and the West.