Study of Muslim Americans

Mar 2, 2009

Gallup Organization | Center for Muslim Studies

The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, as a part of the Muslim West Facts Project, released Muslim Americans: A National Portrait, the first-ever fully random representative study of Muslim Americans, derived from more than 300,000 national household surveys. The report refuted stereotypes and revealed that Muslim Americans are .. Read More
The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, as a part of the Muslim West Facts Project, released Muslim Americans: A National Portrait, the first-ever fully random representative study of Muslim Americans, derived from more than 300,000 national household surveys. The report refuted stereotypes and revealed that Muslim Americans are representative of a cross-section of the wider American population. The study also pointed to lingering obstacles to the full integration of Muslim Americans into the nation's political and civic fabric.

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00:00:18 Unidentified Speaker MUSLIM STUDIES IS RELEASING THE FIRST-EVER NATIONAL STUDY OF MUSLIM AMERICANS, THE REPORT'S AUTHORS...
00:00:55 Unidentified Speaker WELCOME. WE ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED NOW. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DR. SOPHIA CLUTCH....
00:05:45 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU FOR BRAVING THIS WEDDED TO BE WITH US TODAY. AS SOMEONE WHO GREW UP IN WISCONSIN WE CALL...
00:20:21 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE TWO SENIOR ANALYSTS FROM THE CENTER FOR MUSLIM ...
00:20:36 Unidentified Speaker IT IS AN HONOR TO BE WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BE PART OF AN UNPRECEDENTED STUDY INTO A COMMUNITY THAT...
00:25:55 Unidentified Speaker SO IN COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE IS THIS GREAT DISPARITY AND IN COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SO DIVERSE THAT...
00:27:05 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AHMED. I KNOW THAT THAT MAY HAVE SPURRED A QUESTION OR TWO, BUT I'M GOING TO...
00:27:16 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU VERY MUCH@, AMEN -- AHMED FOR SHEDDING LIGHT ON SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS IN THE RECORD....
00:34:47 Unidentified Speaker WITH THAT REVIEW OF THE DATA, I WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND OPEN THE FLOOR UP FOR QUESTIONS, AND WE...
00:35:05 Unidentified Speaker I'D LIKE -- IS THIS ON? OKAY. I'D LIKE TO COMMEND YOUR TEAM FOR BRINGING TO LIGHT THIS VERY IMPORTANT...
00:36:18 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I'LL START AND, AND THEN HAVE OTHERS CHIME IN. THE, THE RACIAL CATEGORIES THAT WE ASKED ARE...
00:37:43 Unidentified Speaker I JUST ADD VERY QUICKLY THAT YOU KNOW, IN A POST-9/11 CONTEXT, BOTH WITHIN GOVERNMENT AND WITHIN ...
00:39:34 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. JUST BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION I'M DEMOGRAPHER...
00:41:25 Unidentified Speaker LET ME -- LET ME ALLOW DALIA TO FIELD BOTH OF THOSE.
00:41:28 Unidentified Speaker BUT BEFORE I DO THAT, A VERY QUICK COMMENT ON THAT, ON YOUTH. IT'S A VERY INTERESTING THAT THEY ARE...
00:42:04 Unidentified Speaker YEAH.
00:42:05 Unidentified Speaker AND THAT HAS CHANGED NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:42:07 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. WELL, THE, YOUR FIRST QUESTION WAS DID WE ASK ABOUT NATIONAL ORIGIN, AND THE ANSWER IS...
00:43:57 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS ONE FOR DALIA AND ONE FOR AIMMEDIATE. DALIA, NOW UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE...
00:45:09 Unidentified Speaker POINTED OUT A VERY IMPORTANT TREND WE DID FIND IS THAT THE, THE GENERALLY, THE INTEGRATION OF MUSLIM-AMERICANS...
00:46:14 Unidentified Speaker NO, I, I AGREE, I AGREE WITH YOUR, YOUR, YOUR GENERAL TRAJECTORY OF ANALYSIS, WHICH IS THAT THE SPACE...
00:47:44 Unidentified Speaker [INAUDIBLE] -- IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT ARAB SOCIETY, FOR EXAMPLE, WOULD YOU THINK THAT'S MORE ATTITUDE...
00:48:15 Unidentified Speaker ISLAM --
00:48:17 Unidentified Speaker NO. I YIELD TO DALIA ON, ON THAT SPECIFIC ISSUE OF WHETHER IT'S ABOUT VIEWS OF WOMEN BUT PROBABLY...
00:49:07 Unidentified Speaker I'M GOING TO LET MAGALI TALK ABOUT WELL-BEING. WHAT WAS THE POINT. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY EMOTIONAL
00:49:12 Unidentified Speaker ALL RIGHT. SO WE, I TALKED ABOUT EVALUATIVE WELL-BEING, WHICH IS BASICALLY THIS LATTER SCALE. --...
00:50:36 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE GOING TO TASTART SHARING DIVERSITY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. AL MILLIKIN. ASIDE FROM THE...
00:51:16 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. I CAN, I CAN RESPOND TO THAT. WE FOUND THAT MUSLIM AMERICANS ARE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT COMPARE...
00:52:52 Unidentified Speaker JASON.
00:52:56 Unidentified Speaker HELLO. I HAD TWO QUICK QUESTIONS. ONE OF THE THINGS I NOTICED YOU INTERVIEWED IN SPANISH, AND THAT...
00:53:07 Unidentified Speaker YES, WE DID. 1%.
00:53:09 Unidentified Speaker OH.
00:53:11 Unidentified Speaker OF MUSLIM AMERICANS ARE LATINO.
00:53:13 Unidentified Speaker THEY ACTUALLY -- DO YOU HAVE TO TALK TO THEM IN SPANISH.
00:53:16 Unidentified Speaker NOT NECESSARILY. WE OFFERED BOTH.
00:53:18 Unidentified Speaker CAN YOU MAKE ANY REMARKS ABOUT PATRIOTISM? I WAS JUST WONDERING, YOU KNOW, AMERICANS GET KIND OF ...
00:53:49 Unidentified Speaker [LAUGHTER]
00:53:55 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I'LL START TO RESPOND TO THAT. THE, THE QUESTION ON PATRIOTISM IS A VERY IMPORTANT ONE. NOW...
00:56:22 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ADD TO THAT, DALIA MOGAHED. WE SEE WHAT YOU MEAN IN EUROPE. MUSLIMS SEEM TO HAVE A VERY RICH,...
00:57:02 Unidentified Speaker ON BEHALF OF THOSE OF US WHO GREW UP MUSLIM IN LAS ANGELES THEY WERE NOT LOST TRIBE. WE KNEW THAT...
00:59:03 Unidentified Speaker WOULD YOU -- SORRY. THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY, BASICALLY YOU LOOKED...
00:59:24 Unidentified Speaker WE TALKED TO 300,000 AMERICANS. AND FOUND THE PEOPLE WHO SELF IDENTIFIED AS MUSLIMS. THE 900 SOME...
00:59:44 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON A 940 -- AND WHAT IS INTERESTING IS GIVEN THAT PEOPLE'S JOBS CHANGE FROM...
01:00:06 Unidentified Speaker THIS WAS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEGRATION OF MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE. BASICALLY, WITH THE DATA WE...
01:01:29 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT IS AN AGGREGATE OF 2008. WE STRUTTED COLLECTING ON JANUARY 1ST, 2008, THE LAST...
01:01:53 Unidentified Speaker THE PERCEPTION THAT MUSLIMS ARE NOT PEACEFUL, THEY ARE TERRORISTS AND EXTREMISTS AND THINGS LIKE ...
01:02:08 Unidentified Speaker WE DIDN'T ASK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THOSE TYPES OF QUESTIONS. THIS IS INFORMATION THAT WE PULLED FROM...
01:02:55 Unidentified Speaker BACK TO ME EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING, IT IS SO FASCINATING, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'LL EXPLORE THIS FURTHER...
01:03:41 Unidentified Speaker I CAN START -- THE HYPOTHESIS -- I THINK IT IS A COMBINATION OF SEVERAL THINGS. ONE IS DEPOSE 9/11...
01:06:20 Unidentified Speaker IN ADDITION TO QUESTIONS OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, I AM CURIOUS ABOUT QUESTIONS OF CULTURAL INTEGRATION...
01:07:01 Unidentified Speaker THOSE ARE COMPLICATED AND IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. I WILL TELL YOU WHAT WE DO KNOW RIGHT NOW. WE DO KNOW...
01:09:08 Unidentified Speaker PLEASE GO AHEAD.
01:09:11 Unidentified Speaker SORRY. WHAT ABOUT ISSUES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE? FISK COULD BE SOMETHING YOU DO KNOW, YOU POLLED SOMEWHERE,...
01:09:31 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE ASKING PRIORITIZATION OF WHICH ISSUES ARE MOST IMPORTANT. WE DID NOT ASK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT...
01:10:22 Unidentified Speaker I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE INTERESTING DISPARITY THAT YOU FOUND BETWEEN THE HIGH DEGREE OF ECONOMIC...
01:11:35 Unidentified Speaker IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN GENERAL AMERICAN HISTORY IN MODERN TIMES. THERE IS NO GROUP OF AMERICANS...
01:14:09 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT IT IS ONE: 15. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAD A HARD STOP,...
01:14:40 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO COME BACK THE SECOND TIME. WHETHER IT WAS ON THE U.S. CITIZENS OR NON-CITIZENS
01:14:55 Unidentified Speaker NATIONAL HOUSEHOLDS. IT WOULD BE A NATIONAL SNAPSHOT OF PEOPLE LIVING HERE.
01:15:04 Unidentified Speaker THE REASON I ASKED THAT QUESTION, MANY OF THEM WOULD BE NON-CITIZENS. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE NOT REGISTERED...
01:15:12 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THAT IS ONE ASPECT OF IT. BUT WE DO THINK FROM OTHER STUDIES THAT THE VAST...
01:15:26 Unidentified Speaker THE SECOND QUESTION, IF I CAN GET MY ANSWER, ABOUT THE NUMBER OF MUSLIMS. YOU HAVE A HUGE NUMBER OF...
01:15:48 Unidentified Speaker IT WOULD PROBABLY BE 900 SOME, 300000.4. POINT FOUR%.
01:15:57 Unidentified Speaker OUT OF THE LARGEST SAMPLES.
01:16:02 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS -- IF YOU ARE ASKING WHAT PERCENTAGE OF OUR ENTIRE SAMPLE, SELF IDENTIFIED AS MUSLIMS, IS...
01:18:11 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, DALIA MOGAHED. I HAVE BEEN REMINDED THAT WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNEW, ON OUR WEB...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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