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April 8, 2008
50,000 Muslims Polled On Feelings Towards The West
by Rohan Parker
The Muslim world has been under much scrutiny since the terror attacks against the U.S. on September 11. What has not been, however, is how the Muslim world now feels towards the West.
Gallup, the international polling organisation, have released the findings from polls conducting in 35 predominantly Muslim countries with over 50,000 interviews over the past six years. The survey is being hailed as the first comprehensive look at opinions from the Muslim world.
The findings have been released as a book, titled Who Speaks for Islam? What a billion Muslims really think. The book outlines many surprising aspects of the current relations between Muslims and the West, and the tension there in which is often exacerbated by politicians and the media.
One of the co-authors, Dalia Mogahed, said in an interview on Monday, that the current suspicions and tensions between Muslim and Western groups where anything but inevitable. She and John Esposito, who is a professor at Georgetown University, have extrapolated much that was hitherto unknown from this massive survey.
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