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Does Modernity Challenge Islamic Values?

Residents of predominantly Islamic countries included in Gallup's Poll of the Islamic World, are deeply ambivalent about how the concepts of economic, social, and cultural modernity relate to the Islamic value system (in three of the countries, ...

Al-Jazeera: Arabs Rate Its Objectivity

The Qatar-based Arabic-language news station, Al-Jazeera, boasts a regular viewership of some 35 million Arabs in its primarily Middle East market, as well as hundreds of thousands of viewers in the United States and Europe. In the wake of Sept. ...

Importance of Religion Among Predominantly Islamic Countries

A Gallup poll of nine predominantly Islamic countries finds that while religion is seen as very important, both a comfortable economic life and one's family compete with religion among the highest-rated values. Indeed, in some of these countries ...

Blame for Sept. 11 Attacks Unclear for Many in Islamic World

Despite the fact that strong majorities in eight of the nine countries included in Gallup’s survey of the Islamic world condemned the Sept. 11 attacks, respondents generally reject the West’s understanding that Arabs were responsible.

Optimism in Nine Predominantly Islamic Countries

Residents in nine countries included in Gallup's poll of predominantly Islamic countries were asked to rate their current situations, their situations five years ago, and their projected situations in five years. While residents are generally ...

Public Wants U.N. to Take Lead in Israel-Hezbollah Peace Talks

A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that most Americans want the U.N. to take the leading role in the development of a peace agreement between Israel and Hezbollah but that the U.S. should still be involved, at least minimally. Most Americans feel ...

Poll of Nine Islamic Countries: Generation Gap in Attitudes Toward the West

A Gallup poll of nine predominantly Islamic countries finds that young people in those countries tend to have a more favorable opinion of the United States than do older people. Younger people are also more likely than older people to associate ...

Islamic Views of the U.S.: The Palestine Factor

There is nothing ambiguous about perceptions of Western policy toward the Palestinians among the residents of the nine predominantly Islamic countries surveyed for Gallup's 2002 Islamic study. Only a handful of people living in most of these ...

Islamic World: Interest in Current Affairs

Gallup's poll of residents in nine predominantly Islamic countries shows that religion tends to take priority over other aspects of everyday life to a greater degree than it does in Western societies (see Religion Dominates Daily Life in the ...

Qualities Islamic World Residents Want to Teach Their Children

People in eight predominantly Islamic countries rate honesty and tolerance among the top qualities they would like their children to learn at home. Obedience, perseverance and independence rank in the middle of the seven qualities measured, ...