soil during that period, attacks that tragically took the lives of 33 people, but this hardly seems overwhelming in a nation that experienced 150,000 murders in the same time span. What accounted for this dramatic drop? Yes, Muslims committed 11 terrorist attacks on U.S. Bush, stated publicly and repeatedly that Islam and Muslims were not to blame for terrorism-terrorists were.īy October 2010, nine years later, only 39 percent of Americans expressed a favorable view of Islam. That was a 14-point increase from a similar poll taken in March 2001, several months before the Twin Towers fell. IN HIS BOOK The Islamophobia Industry, author Nathan Lean points out that two months after the attacks of 9/11, Pew research showed that 59 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Islam.
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