{"id":11768,"date":"2017-07-26T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/american-muslims-are-concerned-but-also-satisfied-with-their-lives\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:16:14","slug":"american-muslims-are-concerned-but-also-satisfied-with-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2017\/07\/26\/american-muslims-are-concerned-but-also-satisfied-with-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"American Muslims are concerned \u2013 but also satisfied with their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are tense times for American Muslims. Majorities say that their religious group faces a lot of discrimination in the United States, that the media is unfair to Muslims and that other Americans do not view Islam as part of mainstream U.S. society. Nearly one-in-five (19%) say they have been called offensive names in the last year, and 6% say they have been physically threatened or attacked.<\/p>\n\n

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Yet for most American Muslims, these problems only partially define their personal experiences in the U.S. Four-in-five say they are satisfied with the way things are going in their lives, and 84% categorize Americans in general as \u201cfriendly\u201d (55%) or \u201cneutral\u201d (30%) toward U.S. Muslims. About nine-in-ten (92%) say they are proud to be American.<\/p>\n\n

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These findings come from Pew Research Center\u2019s new survey<\/a> of 1,001 U.S. Muslim adults, conducted Jan. 23 to May 2, 2017. The poll follows earlier Pew Research Center surveys of American Muslims in 2007 and 2011.<\/p>\n\n

The new survey indicates that the U.S. Muslim community is facing numerous challenges. Three-quarters (75%) of Muslim respondents, for example, say there is \u201ca lot\u201d of discrimination against Muslims in the U.S. (a view shared by 69% of Americans in general). Muslim women are more likely than Muslim men to hold this view (83% versus 68%).<\/p>\n\n

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Asked to describe, in their own words, the most important problems facing Muslims today, 23% of U.S. Muslims mentioned discrimination, racism or prejudice. Meanwhile, 13% point to ignorance or misconceptions about Islam, 10% mention views of Muslims as terrorists, 9% mention negative media portrayals in general, and 9% mention President Donald Trump\u2019s attitudes and\/or policies toward Muslims. About one-in-ten (9%) identify no problems.<\/p>\n\n

Muslims also were asked whether they had experienced specific types of discrimination over the previous 12 months. About one-third (32%) say that others have acted suspicious because they are Muslim, one-fifth say they had been called offensive names, and 18% say airport security had singled them out. One-in-ten (10%) say they had been singled out by other law enforcement officers and 6% say they have been physically threatened or attacked. Overall, 48% of respondents say at least one of these things happened to them in the 12 months prior to the survey, slightly higher than the 40% of respondents who said the same in 2007. Women (26%) are more likely than men (13%) in this year\u2019s survey to say they have been called offensive names.<\/p>\n\n

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Meanwhile, most Muslims (62%) say Americans do not view Islam as part of mainstream American society. In fact, a plurality of U.S. adults (50%) say they don\u2019t see Islam as part of mainstream society. Most U.S. Muslims also say the American media is biased against them, with six-in-ten saying coverage of Islam and Muslims by American news organization is \u201cunfair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Along with their concerns, U.S. Muslims also report a host of positive feelings about life in the U.S. Even as most say that Americans do not view Islam as mainstream, for example, majorities of U.S. Muslims (60%) say they have \u201ca lot\u201d in common with most Americans, and that they can get ahead through hard work (70%) \u2013 a belief that is a\u00a0key component of the so-called American dream.<\/p>\n\n

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U.S. Muslims also appear to be more socially integrated with non-Muslims than they were a decade ago. About one-third (36%)\u00a0of U.S.\u00a0Muslims say that all or most of their friends are Muslim, down from 47% who said that in 2007. Many report positive interactions with non-Muslims by another measure, as well: 49% say that someone expressed support for them because they are Muslim\u00a0in the 12 months prior to the survey, up from 32% who said this in 2007.<\/p>\n\n

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In many ways, American Muslims are also well integrated into the socioeconomic fabric of their country. They are as likely (24%) as the general population (23%) to live in households with $100,000 or more in income, as likely as U.S. adults to be college graduates (31% each), and roughly as likely (44%) as the general population (49%) to be employed full time.<\/p>\n\n

At the same time, they are considerably less likely (37%) than the general population to own a home (57%), and more<\/em> likely (40%) than Americans in general (32%) to have annual household incomes under $30,000. They also are more likely (29%) than the general population (12%) to be underemployed, meaning that they are employed part-time, but would prefer full-time work, or they are unemployed but looking for work.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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