{"id":28117,"date":"2011-09-07T22:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_poll_americans_are_tolerant_of_other_faithsexcept_islam\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T22:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:26:36","slug":"rns_poll_americans_are_tolerant_of_other_faithsexcept_islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28117","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Poll: Americans Are Tolerant of Other Faiths\u201d\u201dExcept Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans consider religious freedom a cornerstone of society, but fall short in their tolerance of Muslims, according to a poll released Tuesday (Sept. 6) that probes Americans\u2019 attitudes toward immigrants and the nation\u2019s safety 10 years after 9\/11.<br \/>\nThe \u201cWhat It Means to Be American\u201d\u009d poll found that a small majority (53 percent) say the country is safer now than before the 9\/11 attacks. Attitudes toward Muslims, however, are far less straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>More than 8 in 10 Americans say that self-proclaimed Christians who commit violence in the name of Christianity are not really Christians. By contrast, less than half (48 percent) say that self-proclaimed Muslims who commit acts of violence in the name of Islam are not really Muslims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/poll-americans-are-tolerant-of-other-faiths-except-islam-cms-18481\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans consider religious freedom a cornerstone of society, but fall short in their tolerance of Muslims, according to a poll released Tuesday (Sept. 6) that probes Americans\u2019 attitudes toward immigrants and the nation\u2019s safety 10 years after 9\/11. The \u201cWhat<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28117\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}