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49% now believe Muslims view United States as enemy
The number of voters who believe terrorists are winning the fight against the United States and its allies continues to grow, while views of Muslims in general and U.S. relations with the Islamic world have worsened.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the United States and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That’s down from the 33% measured in March, but still above findings for most of last year. But now 39% think the terrorists are winning the war, up from 33% in the previous survey and the highest level of pessimism since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Twenty-five percent (25%) say neither side is winning. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Confidence in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts hit a high of 62% in February 2009 just after President Obama’s inauguration, then steadily deteriorated until the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 when it rebounded into the 50s. But it had been trending steadily down for most of the past two years.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters now believe most Muslims worldwide view the United States as an enemy, up from 39% earlier this year and tying the highest level last measured in August 2013. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree and say most Muslims around the world do not view America as an enemy. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure.
Voters remain more evenly divided when it comes to their fellow citizens’ perceptions of Muslims: 39% think most Americans view Muslims worldwide as an enemy, while 42% disagree. Nineteen percent (19%) aren’t sure.
Over half (52%) believe U.S. relations with the Islamic world are worse today than they were five years ago, up from 44% last August. Just 12% think U.S.-Islamic relations are better since Obama’s speech in Cairo just over five years ago, while 27% say those relations are about the same.
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The national survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 15-16, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of Americans agree that Islamic religious leaders need to do more to emphasize the peaceful beliefs of their faith, and 52% believe Islam as practiced today encourages violence more than most other religions.
Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters think U.S. involvement in Middle East politics has been good for this country, showing no change from last July. A plurality (49%) still believes U.S. involvement in Middle East politics is bad for America, also in line with previous surveys. Just six percent (6%) say that involvement has no impact on the United States, while just as many (13%) are undecided.
Voters under 40 are slightly more confident than their elders in U.S. efforts to fight terror and are less likely to think America’s relationship with Islamic countries is worse than it was five years ago. But they are just as likely to think U.S. involvement in the Middle East has hurt this country and that most Muslims worldwide view the America as an enemy.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of Republicans think the terrorists are winning the fight against terrorism, but just 24% of Democrats and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major political party agree. While most Republicans (67%) and unaffiliateds (55%) think U.S. relations with the Islamic world are worse than they were five years ago, just 24% of Democrats share that view.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of Republicans think most Muslims worldwide view the United States as an enemy, compared to 38% of Democrats and 44% of unaffiliateds. Forty-seven percent (47%) of GOP voters say most Americans consider Muslims around the world as an enemy, a view held by only 34% of Democrats and 36% of unaffiliated voters.
Voters who believe U.S.-Islamic world relations have improved feel slightly more strongly than others that U.S. involvement in the region is good for this country.
Voters tend to believe the radical Islamic State group (ISIS) is winning the war in Iraq but are much less supportive of putting U.S. combat troops in the fight.
Eighty-six percent (86%) believe that radical Islamic terrorism is a threat to the United States.
But voters agree with the president that America is not at war with Islam, although they are far less convinced that the economic measures promoted the White House summit on violent extremism earlier this year will help protect this country.
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11 Comments on "49% now believe Muslims view United States as enemy"
joe on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 6:20 pm
To take stock. Sept 10 2001, Al qaeda had a few hundred active members and a rich Saudi backer. 2015 extremists have created a state and thousands of people have died in western countries in the name of Islam. The west has killed or caused to be killed at least one million Muslims making the west look like the aggressor, while Europe faces a tide of immigration from the Muslim world so big it’s going to change European culture and alter the path of history. I would suggest that the west is not ‘winning’ the war on terror, whatever that means.
Plantagenet on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 6:24 pm
Interesting that most folks think the US is not at war with Islam while simultaneously 66% believe that a majority of the Islamic world views the US as the enemy and a plurality believe Isam is winning the war with the USA.
When has there ever before been a war that people didn’t think they were fighting but also believe they are losing?
paulo1 on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 8:20 pm
Excellent comments you guys.
I have a question. Would you pay more for an airline ticket if the pilots were non Muslim? I would…but then again I’m not planning on flying anywhere anytime soon!!
Of course I also hope psychological evaluations were part of an ATR rating in addition to the usual drills and flight qualifications. Now, if the politicians could also be tested……
antaris on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 8:51 pm
Paulo it doesn’t seem to matter about religion. If a fight crewman decides to go Germanwings you are shit out of luck.
i1 on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 9:06 pm
This is a zionist fairy tale. The WTC was blown up with thermonuclear weapons.
https://donaldfox.wordpress.com/
Makati1 on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 10:42 pm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-trustworthy-are-u-s-western-news-media/5443813
And now back to your regularly scheduled
“programing”…
Programming according to Merriam-Webster: adjective – the process of instructing or learning by means of an instructional program. (Indoctrination)
Apneaman on Mon, 20th Apr 2015 10:58 pm
The Canadian Ministry of “Truth”: “Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is”
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30270-the-canadian-ministry-of-truth-reality-is-whatever-we-say-it-is
peakyeast on Tue, 21st Apr 2015 4:44 am
An old joke is that when China goes to war with the US all they have to do is send as many lifeboats and all shout “we surrender!! we surrender!!”
Only a “small” part of the chinese population has to surrender to the us before china has won.
The same now with the ME and EU.
Makati1 on Tue, 21st Apr 2015 6:20 am
peakyeast, you made me laugh and then think, but you are correct. And the ‘lifeboats’ are already arriving and buying up US real estate and corporations. Not to mention the “Chinatowns” in every sizable city. There are ~4,000,000 Chinese/Americans now and that does not include foreign students, green cards, or other temp workers and tourists. Or the crews of the Chinese subs off the Western US beaches. lol
Davy on Tue, 21st Apr 2015 7:37 am
Peak, this time will be different because the US or anywhere else the Chinese want to go will not be an option because the will have their own collapse situation. There will not be enough boats, food, and or fuel for all those Asians to try to migrate. Most of the sailing ships are gone and rowing is not an option. When or if collapse comes quickly we will not have time to make preparations for migrations beyond foot travel or residual fuel availability.
Asians have a shit storm to work through. A huge amount of Asians will have to die to get that region into balance. The west has a wakeup call but at least most western countries have somewhere to go. Unfortunately for most westerners they do not know how to farm anymore and the have been conditioned to modern food deliveries to their neighborhood. Many western countries are in cold environments and they will succumb to the elements quickly in a harsh winter setting. This may be a silver lining to climate change for a few years with less intense winters but I doubt it. I am seeing worse winters since climate change has been gathering steam.
PrestonSturges on Wed, 22nd Apr 2015 10:45 am
Rasmussen isn’t a polling organization, they are a right wing propaganda mill that samples the opinions of elderly shutins without cell phones and then reports that Americans are extremely conservative. It’s a closed loop where the most sample Fox News viewers and then report the results back to them.