Poll: American favorabilty toward Islam lowest since Oct, 2001

Americans favorability toward the Islam religion has greatly decreased over the years...

From Talking Points Memo:

Fewer Americans have a positive view toward Islam today than in the wake of 9/11. According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll of national views on the Cordoba House project in Lower Manhattan and the planet’s second-largest religion, just 37% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Islamic faith.

That’s “the fewest in ABC/Post polls dating to October 2001 (albeit by just 2 points),” according to the release.

In an ABC/Post poll released Oct. 9, 2001 — less than a month after the attacks on New York and Washington — 47% of Americans said they had favorable attitude toward Islam. Today, as we near the ninth anniversary of those attacks, that number is lower by ten points.

When it comes to overtly negative views toward Islam, though, the situation has improved for Muslims in America a bit since the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

A total of 49% of respondents in the latest poll said they have an unfavorable view of the faith, “essentially the same as in the spring, but well up from its lows in 2002, when many were undecided,” the pollster writes.

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