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Dalia Mogahed - Muslim Americans: An In-Depth Analysis Through Gallup Polling
Rumi ForumOn April 21 2009, during the Rumi Forum Luncheon Series, Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, spoke about Gallup's recent study on Muslim Americans. In order to conduct this study, which began in 2008, the Gallup team created a sample size of over 300,000 people. While the poll also questioned Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Mogahed focused her talk on the 946 Muslim Americans that were interviewed. This poll provided knowledge of who Muslim Americans are. It was found that on a whole they are racially diverse, young, highly educaRead moreShow less
On April 21 2009, during the Rumi Forum Luncheon Series, Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, spoke about Gallup's recent study on Muslim Americans. In order to conduct this study, which began in 2008, the Gallup team created a sample size of over 300,000 people. While the poll also questioned Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Mogahed focused her talk on the 946 Muslim Americans that were interviewed.
This poll provided knowledge of who Muslim Americans are. It was found that on a whole they are racially diverse, young, highly educated, productive, and their political ideologies are very diverse. The poll also uncovered that Muslim Americans face a number of challenges. For one, Muslim Americans are less likely to classify themselves as thriving, especially among younger Muslims. They are also less likely to be registered to vote and within this group there are great socio-economic disparities.
When asked about long term goals for this research Mogahed noted that while it is a foundational study she hopes that the findings will allow the media news reporting, Hollywood, and most importantly policy makers to better understand who Muslim Americans really are. Since there are more questions to be answered concerning Muslim Americans this study is far from over. In May, Gallup's office in London will be conducting a similar study on Muslims in Europe. If you would like to see Gallup's entire analysis it can found online on the website muslimwestfacts.com.
Dalia Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world. With John L. Esposito, Ph.D., she is coauthor of the book. Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Her analysis has appeared in a number of leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, Harvard International Review, The Journal of Middle East Policy, and many other academic and popular journals. Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey of more than one billion Muslims worldwide, including Muslims in the West. She also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com), through which Gallup, in collaboration with The Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West. Mogahed is a member of Women in International Security (WIIS), serves on the leadership group of the Project on U.S. Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, and is a member of the Brookings Middle East Crisis Task Force.
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This poll provided knowledge of who Muslim Americans are. It was found that on a whole they are racially diverse, young, highly educated, productive, and their political ideologies are very diverse. The poll also uncovered that Muslim Americans face a number of challenges. For one, Muslim Americans are less likely to classify themselves as thriving, especially among younger Muslims. They are also less likely to be registered to vote and within this group there are great socio-economic disparities.
When asked about long term goals for this research Mogahed noted that while it is a foundational study she hopes that the findings will allow the media news reporting, Hollywood, and most importantly policy makers to better understand who Muslim Americans really are. Since there are more questions to be answered concerning Muslim Americans this study is far from over. In May, Gallup's office in London will be conducting a similar study on Muslims in Europe. If you would like to see Gallup's entire analysis it can found online on the website muslimwestfacts.com.
Dalia Mogahed is a Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a nonpartisan research center dedicated to providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world. With John L. Esposito, Ph.D., she is coauthor of the book. Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think. Her analysis has appeared in a number of leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, Harvard International Review, The Journal of Middle East Policy, and many other academic and popular journals. Mogahed leads the analysis of Gallup's unprecedented survey of more than one billion Muslims worldwide, including Muslims in the West. She also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com), through which Gallup, in collaboration with The Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West. Mogahed is a member of Women in International Security (WIIS), serves on the leadership group of the Project on U.S. Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, and is a member of the Brookings Middle East Crisis Task Force.
See full event here:
http://rumiforum.org/muslim-americans-an-in-depth-analysis-through-gallup-polling/
http://www.rumiforum.org, http://rumiforum.blogspot.com,
http://www.youtube.com/user/RumiForum, http://twitter.com/#!/rumiforum
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rumi-Forum/270743316210
http://picasaweb.google.com/110222538312634006729
