Poll: American Muslims hopeful about life in the U.S.

(RNS) Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, an extensive new survey of
Muslims finds them as optimistic as other Americans, even as large
minorities of Christian Americans question Muslims' loyalty to the
United States.

The survey, released Tuesday (Aug. 2) by the Gallup organization's
center in the Middle East, presented a community less than fully assured
of its place in the United States, but generally confident in President
Obama and the American economy.

American Muslims' perceptions of their own well-being increased more
in the past three years than those of any other religious group,
according to the report, which also surveyed Protestants, Catholics,
Jews, Mormons, atheists and agnostics. Muslims' expectations for their
own happiness in five years similarly topped all other faiths'.