(Hill) Americans are more likely to associate Islam with violence in the lead-up to elections or military conflicts, pollster Dalia Mogahed said in an interview that aired Thursday on “What America’s Thinking.”
“If you look at one measure that Pew has been tracking for the past 18 years — how much the public associates violence with Islam — when that perception spikes is not after terrorist attacks, which is what you’d think. It is during election cycles, and in the drum-up to war,” Mogahed, director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, told Hill.TV’s Jamal Simmons on Wednesday.
“This perception of Islam being violent is being promoted for very specific political ends,” she said.
