202 7848001 for the mountain and pacific time zone. We are going to take your calls and learn about life in the u. S. For Muslim Americans. A new estimate of the u. S. , pew researchion center estimates there were about 3. 3 million muslims of all in 2015. Ng in the u. S. This means that muslims made up about 1 of the entire u. S. Population. It is suggested that the Muslim Population will grow faster than the hindu population and much faster than the Jewish Population in the coming decade. In 2040, muslims are expected to become the secondlargest religious group in the u. S. By 2050, the american u. S. Population muslim u. S. Population is estimated to reach 2 of the population. Living in a religiously Pluralistic Society, Muslim Americans are more likely than muslims in other countries to have many nonmuslim friends. Muslimsut half of u. S. Say all or most of their Close Friends are also muslims, completed compared to a global median of 95 in 30 countries surveyed. Muslims are far more likely to identify with or lean to the Democratic Party than the theylican party and to say prefer a bigger government providing more services. As of 2011, u. S. Muslims are split between those who said homosexuality should be accepted by society. Had grown considerably more accepting of homosexuality since a similar survey was conducted in 2007. 202 is the area code. 202 7488000 for those of you in the eastern time zones. Here is president obama recently talking about muslims in america. [video clip] , opponents of now criticized this information and me for not using the phrase radical islam. That is the key, they tell us. Isil unless we call them radical islam is. What exactly would using this label accomplish. What would it change . Isil lessake committed to trying to kill americans . Would it bring in more allies . Is there a military strategy served by this . The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. Distraction. Itical since before i was president , i have been clear about how extremist groups have perverted islam to justify terrorism. I have repeatedly called on our muslim friends and allies to work with us to reject this twisted interpretation of one of the worlds great religions. There has not been a moment when we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we did not radical islam. Host this picture appears on all the front pages of newspapers this morning. President obama and Vice President biden at the memorial in orlando. Back to the Pew Research Center poll. Characteristics associated with westerners and muslims is this chart. Traits associated with muslims inamong predominantly muslim countries. 68 see them as selfish, violent, greedy, immoral, arrogant, fanatical. Respectful of women, honest, tolerant, generous all fall below 50 . On the other side, traits associated with muslims among nonmuslims in the u. S. These are western attitudes toward muslims. 58 say muslims are fanatical, 51 say honest. Violent, 50 . Below 50 , generous, arrogant, selfish, tolerant, respectful of women, and greedy. Of there some characteristics people associate with these two different groups. We want to know your attitude toward Muslim Americans. Here are the numbers. Michael is calling in from new kensington, pennsylvania on our republican line. Morning. What is your attitude toward Muslim Americans . Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call on cspan. Youoncern is that whether are talking about Muslim Americans or illegal aliens or people coming across the border, flooding our borders from everywhere, the problem is that people have not been reeducated in the role of the constitution. The way these Muslim Americans, their attitude is mostly democratic. I listened to the Bernie Sanders speech earlier and he might as well be the leader of venezuela. Not one mention of the constitution. So muchwhy we have trouble with people understanding the role of the Second Amendment today, as we do that people want to forget we have a Second Amendment. Dilutiont a continual of the role of our constitution. Host that is michael in pennsylvania. We are going through the Pew Research Center poll or polls and surveys on Muslim Americans and we want to get your attitude on Muslim Americans. John is in glendale, arizona. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Hello . Host we are listening. Caller i just wanted to say this issue about orlando and muslims, it is not about guns, it is not about radical muslims, it is about the alligators. We need to do something about the alligators. Host we are going to talk to ahmed in columbia, maryland. My life is good. I havent had any issues. I dont consider myself to be a religious muslim, but im a muslim nonetheless. Life has been good for me, and for my children. I have one that works in the medical field and the other is in law enforcement. Were you born in the states . Caller i was born in the united kingdom. Host we have gone through some of this survey. When Something Like orlando happens or San Bernardino, what is the reaction of your neighbors . I havent noticed anything negative. For my neighbors or anyone. I have not noticed anything. Egative from my neighbors i have not noticed anything that was negative. Thank you for sharing with us. It encouraging violence, the islamic religion . 50 say it is more likely. 39 say not more likely. Very concerned about the rise of islamic extremism, republicans the rise of islamic extremism in the world, 82 . Independents, 60 . Democrats, 51 . Fik in shreveport, louisiana. What is your life like in the u. S. . You know, it is good. It is very concerning how islam in america is being depicted in the media there are two sets of islamic thought. Honorablerom the most elijah mohammed. , we turned into orthodox muslims. What is happening with us is we are being grouped in with muslims from overseas who have had a lot of trouble with and how foreignpolicy they have depicted these people as being terrorists. Im an american. I love america. This is our country. But im very much against how they detroit destroyed Saddam Hussein and moammar gadhafi. I think what we need to be concerned about is our government and how the government is putting those things out there and we the people have to bear the brunt of this kind of behavior. Thank you. Host what size is the Muslim Population in shreve for . Caller it is a nice Little Community of immigrants and people from the nation of islam. Maybe 25000 and that is just off the top of my head. Im not sure about that number. Opportunityiven the for us to really communicate with our neighbors on the local level and talk, we get a chance to understand that slavery has happened, all those things have happened, but we get a chance to communicate with each other and talk about the real come a local level and we are able to really lift ourselves out of that old way of thinking. Some people think muslims are mad and black people are mad because we want to kill everybody. But we dont have a chance to because all of the dialogue perpetuated by the news media and the government. That is what makes it bad for us. Weve got to keep working. Host as you know, a lot of this conversation is because of what happened in orlando. Muslimsattitude of toward homosexuality. Where are you on that . Is not homosexuality something that i support personally. That alli do support lives matter, whether you are homosexual or not. Again, i dont know how that happened or who did it i just , those people our hearts go out to those people. They did not do anything to to them. Hat happened as far as my opinion about homosexuality because i am a spiritual man, it is not something i support, but people have a right to be with they want to be and that is how we have to deal with this. I dont hate nobody. Thank you. Host maryland in inglewood, tennessee. Democrat. Caller my opinion on the muslims in america. I love everything he said, that gentleman. I have to agree with him, i have no problem with the muslims. I dont have any problem with the hindus was a buddhists. Yes, im a christian. I have problems with radical christians, radical muslims, anybody that is radical. Anybody who wants to change our lifestyle or destroy things for no reason. As far as any particular religion, no, i have no problem with any of it. Host do you know any muslims . Caller not here in tennessee. Im originally from california. Met all people from all kinds of religions. I live in smalltown tennessee. Knoxville if i was in knoxville or chattanooga, i would probably know some. Kkk and the neonazis and some of them were doing their destructiveness, our government stood up and said that is enough. Even the gangsters back in the 1930s they said that is enough. They did not blame a whole society. Hey blamed a particular group that was cool. Lets get them under control. Them, thats fine, but they are not doing the destructiveness they did back in their day. That is the thing with isis. It needs to be controlled. Not the whole group. They are muslims, they are christians no. Go after that particular group. Let them have their little yadda yadda, but keep them under control. They are not going to destroy the country. We are not going to blame them. If you take the entire population of the United States and you pick out the silly people in all groups, you would still have a whole country in the United States. Host thank you. This is monti in ellicott city, maryland on the Muslim American line. What is your life like . Caller good morning, cspan and everybody else. Generally, it is very good. Im very pleased to be in america. I had my first wife with two children here. My second wife is now in america with me. Very happy. Very pleased. Somehow find myself trying to hide the fact that im a muslim just to declare it out right. People say you need leaders to speak out and to do visible signs of objection and so on, which i think they do. Muslims in general, everybody i know, not a single one counted out does not agree with what goes on in the radical thinking. Not a Single Person do i see defending any action, whether it ,s against innocent people whether it is against other muslims, whether it is against people in france or gay people. That atvery wrong thing least everybody i know feels, whether american or muslim, i should say. Dont know how people believe that muslims would support Something Like this. Im originally from jerusalem. Im palestinian, originally. Host do you feel fully integrated into American Society . Do you have friends who are not muslim . Caller of course. I have neighbors to visit me and i visit them. I had my children grow up here. Their friends walk into the house anytime they feel like. They have grown with my children. I am fully integrated. I work with purely american folks. I have a small company. Every Single Person that supports me in my work is an american. The New York Times had an article about one of the doctors in orlando, a Muslim American treating some of the injured, and they write that his first thought was please dont let it be a muslim name who did the shooting. Do you have the same reaction . Caller oh boy do we say that, every single time. Please, for gods sake, just dont let it be a muslim. It is very embarrassing. Not only embarrassing, but you almost feel like, whether you like it or not, you are assumed to be you are the one who did it. It is just horrific. Horrific, horrific, horrific. I promise you that nobody i know folks that i talk with overseas, they dont like it. True, i do agree that some people, there are really some people that interpret islam in certain ways that says one of the most is standic things behind your leader. You should honor your leader. That is where part of the people becomes for these that dont have opportunity and so on. They seem to blindly follow whatever their leaders say. In that case, it could be a very radical person and they go down that path. When you try to argue with them that this is wrong, they will come back at you and say things like but so and so says. You know . Host thank you for your time this morning. We appreciate it. Is in alexandria, virginia. What is your attitude toward muslims in america . Caller i dont have any attitude toward muslims. I think that muslims are very good people just like every other american. People are trying to be politically correct, but muslims are fighting every day. They put their lives at stake to defend this great country. Some of the rhetoric coming from that side should have to be very, very guarded. I understand that most people are feel full of what is going on. I remember one of your programs about two years ago. A u. S. Senator mentioned that se who engage in such acts there is a section of the muslim espouse those views. It does not have to be generalized. Im not trying to be politically correct. That is a fact. We defend this great country every day. Office should for it is easy for people to say what they want to say. President obama has been standing tall to make sure that we are all embracing everybody. One thing i will mention is that we have a society where people are closed minded. You want to be very careful what they. That is my call in this morning. Host thank you for calling in. Abdul. What is your life like as a Muslim American . Caller it is very good. It is a great life living in america. It is the land of opportunity. I love this country. I work in the Intelligence Community and i have multiple deployments to afghanistan and iraq. I just wanted to shed some light on the issue that we are currently facing as americans. We should not be putting a label on everything that happens. Especially incidents like this that happen. We should not be putting a label it. That is what the terrorists want. Talking from my experience in the Intelligence Community, that is what the terrorists want right now to put a name on it. They want the credit so badly. If we put the islamic name on it, we are it. Actually leaning toward what they want. They are using us. We should come together in and weons like that should be more like a nation rather than muslims, christians, hindus, or jews. We should all be one nation. We should come together and fight this. Host do you think the term radical islam is not a good term to use . Caller absolutely not. We should not use the term because what the terrorist organizations want right now is to legitimize their message. If we legitimize their message , hereling a radical islam america, we are leaving there are 3 million muslims that live in america and every one of them work in different walks of life. They are serving this country in the armed forces. They are working in our industries. Making great contributions in every field in the United States. , wee call it radical islam are letting those people outside and that is what the terrorists want. They cannot come over here and attack the United States. Us leaving that certain population of the u. S. Outside of our lives and not bringing themin, by not accepting it would further their purpose. Do you understand their fears when Something Like peoples nightclub shooting or the San Bernardino shooting happens and it is a Muslim American who does it . Caller absolutely, i and her stand that. There is going to be some black sheep and every community, every religion, every country. There are some black sheep. There have only been three attacks carried out by muslims in the past so many years. While there have been hundreds of other attacks, similar attacks, but they have not been named after a certain religion. As ahave been labeled tragedy rather than a terrorist attack. Labeling something is a terrorist attack is legitimizing the cause and the purpose of that terrorist organization. We are giving them more credit than they deserve. Is donald trump talking about the term radical islam. [video clip] mr. Trump we cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to percent of our country who have the same this savageess as killer. Many of the principles of radical islam are incompatible with western values and institutions. [applause] mr. Trump remember this, radical islam is antiwoman, antigay, and antiamerican. [applause] refuse to allow america to become a place where gay where gay people, christian people, jewish people are targets of persecution and intimidation by radical islamic preachers of hate and violence. Russ, connecticut, our independent line. What do you think about Muslim Americans . What is your attitude . Caller i wanted to say quickly that i am pleased to hear these muslims call in and talk about how their life in america seems to be going well. Incurred by the calls you are getting. The reason i called was because to a talk by a muslim. I asked a question about whether or not there was any feeling in american muslims reflecting the split between the shiites and the sunni that we see so much in the middle east. His answer was a good answer. It is one i wanted to relay to you. He said the american muslims, the muslims who have come to torica are more they tend be more accepting. That is why they are coming here. They are trying to escape the hatreds we see in the middle east. Not all the ones in the middle east feel that way. Not all can come to this country. Seeaid you are not going to any of that, or very little of that in this country because that is the 10 he. That is white that is the tendency. That is why the