American Muslim Poll 2017: Muslims at the Crossroads

Mogahed, Dalia; Chouhoud, Youssef

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“…Any analysis of the role that ethnicity plays in conditioning American Muslim attitudes and behavior would be incomplete, however, without considering the influence of immigration. A recent national poll, for example, found that only half of all Muslims were born in the United States, a tally far below the general public and other major faith groups (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017). The Arab population in America is likewise largely comprised of recent immigrants.…”

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“…As Muslims in America seek to deepen their societal impact and build political coalitions, our research indicates that within-group diversity should be just as centered as communal cohesion. For example, even though American Muslims may be more likely than other religious groups to support Black Lives Matter (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017), the full suite of liberal policy positions may not appeal to all segments of this population. Indeed, Muslims in the USA remain one of the country's more religiously practicing communities (a pattern evident even among the population's younger cohorts (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017)) and a substantial portion remain socially conservative.…”

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“…For example, even though American Muslims may be more likely than other religious groups to support Black Lives Matter (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017), the full suite of liberal policy positions may not appeal to all segments of this population. Indeed, Muslims in the USA remain one of the country's more religiously practicing communities (a pattern evident even among the population's younger cohorts (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017)) and a substantial portion remain socially conservative. Thus, a potential tension exists between American Muslims’ identity as a minority group in America, a standing which lends itself to allying with progressive causes, and as a religious community whose beliefs and priorities may not fully align with left-of-center (let alone far-left) agendas.…”

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American Muslim Political Participation: Between Diversity and Cohesion

Chouhoud

Barreto

Dana

2019

Politics and Religion

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American Muslims’ increased societal salience has led to greater scrutiny of their political and social attitudes. Yet, systematic analyses of this population remain rare and tend to aggregate findings at a level that masks the community's diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a partial corrective, our paper provides a comprehensive demographic analysis of American Muslim political participation. Our conclusions, first, complement previous efforts to elaborate the influence of minority status on the core determinants of political participation. Second, they highlight the differential impact of these determinants within key American Muslim demographic subgroups, revealing the moderating effects of denomination, racial or ethnic background, and gender. As scholars and practitioners seek to better understand Muslims in America, our research suggests that there are myriad circumstances when this community's presumed cohesion gives way to meaningfully diverse perspectives and behaviors.

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American Muslim Political Participation: Between Diversity and Cohesion

Chouhoud

Barreto

Dana

2019

Politics and Religion

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“…Muslim Americans constitute one of the United States’ most vulnerable minorities, facing prejudice and discrimination from both the public and the government (Howell and Jamal 2009; Mogahed and Pervez 2016). Negative attitudes toward the community have remained high for decades (Kalkan, Layman and Uslaner 2009; Panagopoulos 2006), but this vulnerability has worsened in the context of the War on Terror, and more recently following the 2016 election (Calfano, Lajevardi and Michelson 2017; Haddad and Harb 2014).…”

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Countering Misperceptions to Reduce Prejudice: An Experiment on Attitudes toward Muslim Americans

Williamson¹

2019

J Exp Polit Sci

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Muslim Americans constitute one of the United States’ most vulnerable minority groups, facing frequent discrimination from both the public and the government. Despite this vulnerability, few studies evaluate interventions for reducing prejudice against Muslim Americans. Building from an insightful literature on the sources of prejudice against Muslim Americans, this paper tests whether attitudes can be improved with information countering misperceptions of the community as particularly foreign, threatening, and disloyal to the United States. The experimental treatment modestly improved attitudes, including among some subgroups predisposed to prejudice against Muslim Americans. However, the treatment struggled to change policy views, and it demonstrated some vulnerability to social desirability bias and priming on terrorism threats. The findings suggest that information campaigns addressing misperceptions can help to reduce prejudice on the margins, but primarily in less politicized contexts.

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“…According to a study released by the Institute for Social and Public Understanding, a nonprofit think tank, 42 percent of Muslims with school-aged children reported their children experienced bullying because of their faith, compared to 23 percent of Jewish and 20 percent of Christian parents (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017, 4). A 2018 survey by the Council on American-Islamic Relations revealed that 53 percent of California’s Muslim youth between the ages of eleven and eighteen reported being bullied over their religion—more than twice the national average.…”

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Shari‘a Consciousness: Law and Lived Religion among California Muslims

Massoud¹,

Moore²

2020

Law Soc. Inq.

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Shari‘a (commonly translated as Islamic law) is at the epicenter of anti-Muslim discourses in the United States. How do Muslims in the United States understand and experience shari‘a in the context of virulent attacks on it and on Islam and Muslims more generally? This article explores the meanings Californian Muslims give to and the intentions they derive from shari‘a when dominant discourses represent shari‘a as a cause for concern in American life. Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with Muslims across California, as well as scholarship on legal consciousness and lived religion, we document three interrelated stages of shari‘a consciousness: perceiving shari‘a and discriminatory depictions of it; educating oneself about shari‘a’s social and political relevance; and forming an intention for social action. Documenting these interrelated stages and theorizing the relationship between legal consciousness, religion, and inequality, this article reveals how religious identity formation is a significant precursor of legal mobilization and how nonstate normative orders provide interpretive frames for understanding human rights and social justice. Ultimately, legal consciousness may stem from sacred sensibilities and the desire to be a more ethical servant of God and not merely to be a more ethical subject of the state.

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American Muslim Poll 2017: Muslims at the Crossroads

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American Muslim Political Participation: Between Diversity and Cohesion

American Muslim Political Participation: Between Diversity and Cohesion

Countering Misperceptions to Reduce Prejudice: An Experiment on Attitudes toward Muslim Americans

Shari‘a Consciousness: Law and Lived Religion among California Muslims

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