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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, ...

Americans More Unfavorable Than Favorable Toward Muslim Countries

Two recent polls conducted by The Gallup Organization reveal high levels of negative feelings between Muslims and Americans. With a few exceptions, Americans tend to hold more unfavorable than favorable opinions of nine Islamic countries that ...

Al-Jazeera Viewers Perceive West Differently

When it comes to television in the Arab world, one station predominates: Al-Jazeera, the satellite TV network based in the tiny peninsula nation of Qatar. Independent of the government and employing journalists with a wide variety of ...

Poll of the Islamic World: Perceptions of Western Culture

Residents in all but two of the countries surveyed for Gallup's Poll of the Islamic World feel that Western nations do not have much interest in improving the coexistence between the West and the Arab/Islamic world. These views are consistent ...