Americans: People in Muslim Countries Have Negative Views of U.S.

Gallup by Frank Newport, Dalia Mogahed | Feb. 2, 2007 (Poll)

An overwhelming majority of Americans say that people in Muslim countries have unfavorable opinions about the United States, little changed from five years ago. There has been some change, however, in the reason given for Muslims' negative opinions -- more Americans now than in 2002 say it is because of U.S. actions rather than "misinformation," although a majority still believes it is the latter. In an interesting contrast, only about a third of Americans ... Full Story »

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by Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

What is the point of taking opinion polls about facts ("What do Muslims think of the U.S.?")? Why not ask Muslims what they think of the U.S. and add some facts to the dialogue, rather than cementing speculation? There are valid opinion questions in the poll, but they're overshadowed by a couple of weak "What do you think the facts are?" questions.