and for that. finally, there were no prejudice is because they were unknown. this was a nation of islam, the only public disability in america. in europe because they were turks, pakistanis. there were no muslims in general before 2000, there were no muslims in great britain, there are no muslims in france. they became muslims and in moderate they became muslims. before there were turks and no muslims, this is an interesting comparison. there were clearly prejudiced against them as ethnic groups but other religious groups and the prejudice against islam itself that has become the most important characteristic. thank you for that acute observation. that s very helpful. let s go right across the middle. the lady and is that sort of red, please call and if you can see who you are the would be great. i noticed you said the surveys are the most positive indicators for the acceptance of the social contact but in the rural areas obviously there are not as many muslims and i wond
education. you know, as robbie s charts clearly indicated there does tend to be a very strong age and education effect influencing attitudes towards islam, immigration and a number of other cultural religious issues as well. said the survey indicates all of the expected correlations with regard to african-americans, hispanics, muslims and immigrants patterns of social relations and the importance of religion itself. but, and this will be my concluding point, there were some surprises. we did not we expected to find a much bigger divide between the youngest and the oldest americans on the issue of whether reverse discrimination, discrimination against whites has become as important an issue at as discrimination against minorities. we expected to find a significant gap on the question of whether discrimination against minorities remains an important issue in american politics and society today and also on the question, the very dramatic question of whether muslims who commit
a majority of people agree that american muslims are an important part of the religious community and the united states, but are divided over whether the values of islam are at odds with the u.s. values. this is part of a report by the brookings institution and public religion research institute, which looked at the role of religion in u.s. politics. this is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] i want to welcome everyone here today. i me j. dionne a senior fellow here at brookings. it is very good if you to come out and be with us and this is a very exciting survey. we have said a lot after 9/11 that we had a new normal that this had changed us in extraordinary ways and it is always in the survey that you are about to hear, more about, talks about americans attitudes 10 years later. we feel more safe marginally but we feel we have less personal freedom and less respect in the world but in many ways are halves we didn t change and indeed some of the divisions among u