Poll finds mixed support for hearings on Muslim radicalization

A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute finds that, while a majority of Americans (56 percent) support the upcoming Congressional hearings on radicalization in American Muslim communities, seven in ten believe that Muslim communities should not be singled out; instead, they think that Congress should be investigating radicalization in a variety of religious communities. Perhaps most importantly, the poll finds a strong correlation between those who most trust Fox News as a news source and those who hold negative views about Muslims.

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Grace Yukich

Grace Yukich is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University and a contributing editor at the The Immanent Frame. She is an editor in chief of Mobilizing Ideas, a scholarly blog publishing interdisciplinary perspectives on social movements, social change, and the public sphere hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Movements at Notre Dame. From 2010-2011, she was the Religion & Public Life Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion. She is currently working on a book on the intersections of religion, politics, and immigration in the New Sanctuary Movement, an interfaith pro-immigrant movement in the U.S.

Grace Yukich

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