Interreligious Current Events

Gallup has just released a new poll of Muslims with 50,000 respondents from across the Muslim world.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080227/ts_alt_afp/usislamreligionethics

Gallup's poll shows that 93 percent of Muslims condemn the 9/11 attacks. Of the 7 percent who support the attacks, most gave political reasons for supporting them, not religious ones.

Though the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not radical, having 7 percent who are radical translates into tens of millions of radicalized people. The radicals are wealthier and better educated than moderates and are more likely to see a positive future for Islam.

The poll is part of Gallup's world survey. The results are being released in a book called "Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think" by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed.

http://www.gallup.com/press/17473/Gallup-Press.aspx