Poll: Anti-Muslim sentiment grew after bin Laden death

(RNS) Many Muslim Americans had hoped that the death of Osama bin Laden
would improve their image among other Americans, but according to a new
survey, just the opposite has happened.

Rather than being mollified, anti-Muslim sentiment has intensified
since Navy Seals killed the al-Qaida leader in a May 1 raid in Pakistan,
according to a new report by researchers from the Ohio State University
School of Communication, Cornell University's Survey Research Institute,
and the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

In the weeks before bin Laden's death, nearly half of respondents
described Muslim Americans as "trustworthy" and "peaceful," researchers
said. After bin Laden's death, that figure dropped to one-third of
respondents.