Do American Muslims Believe In Religious Freedom? - Learn Liberty

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Contrary to some political rhetoric you may have heard, American Muslims believe in religious freedom. In fact, American Muslims are even more strongly opposed to religion impacting government than American Christians. Policy Analyst David Bier explains:

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One of the other things that we did at CATO was take a look at how do Muslim Americans compare to other Muslims around the world and to Americans and their views. What we found was that they are remarkably more liberal and socially tolerant than Muslims in other countries, including in Europe. A lot of people make a false comparison between the United States and Europe in this respect. You have to understand that Muslim Americans, 81% of them are recent immigrants the United States or the children of immigrants. Really, we would expect their views to reflect their home countries, but the reality is that they overwhelmingly reject ideas like Sharia Law being imposed in the United States.

A majority 55% say that they would reject having their religion influence policy in any way, even as a partial source, which is something that US Christians do not agree with when it comes to the Bible. They take a very strong separation of church and state stance, more so than other Americans even.

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[jasontromm]

Even if 55% don't believe in imposition of Sharia law, that still leaves 45% who DO want Sharia law. (That would be the logical conclusion.)

[simorote]

0:56 The complement of that is that 45% would NOT reject their religion influencing policy, hardly a relieving point of info. I expect from cato a greater rigour, alas i notice that political ideology comes first and intellectual soundness after; i guess i have to adjust the trust that i once had in the cato institute.

[devinngeorge]

why are we referring to them as muslim-americans?Please stop

[Paul-A]

There has always been a difference between the average group and those who chose to immigrate. Those people are usually more driven, integrate better and achieve higher economic status.

[BgHagar]

Taqiyya

The minute you introduced yourself, the deception began.

How ignorant is the Cato Institute? Answer: Very.

[TheOsamaBahama]

I appreciate you doing this Learn Liberty. Keep spreading the word against bigotry using facts. Just make videos more worked out like you used to do, instead of cutting a larger video and putting it on youtube.

[Bigs]

This is why people become paleoconservatives, culture matters!

[ndawg]

Interesting. I would tend to agree, although there is a minority of muslims who do want the US to be a caliphate. Islam is, after all, a political system as much as a religious system.

[BobWidlefish]

How many answered the survey by practicing Taqiyya?

[TPBass]

For anyone who's interested, Dr Peter Hammond published research that examined the tolerance level of Muslims relative to their % of the population.

[MaximusThrax]

Not the ones that believe in Sharia law.

[AjaxNixon]

unsubbed. You guys are shilling hard lately.

[cia]

Yes, I'm sure all Muslims were completely honest when CATO asked them if they believe in religious freedom.

[TemporalAsassination]

Ok, as an American I will defend to the Death your right to practice Free Speech and Your right to practice Your religion in peace and safety. ARE there Muslims out There that would make the same sacrifice for a Christian or a Jew? And if the answer is YES, does this conflict with the teachings of the Qu'ran? I believe A LOT of Christian and Jewish Americans would like the answer to this question. Is Islam existentially opposed to Judaism/Christianity?

[ihatetsquad]

Come on people. As terrible as Islam is globally, it is still true that *American* Muslims are for the most part moderate and secular, which is all this video is claiming. The success of the U.S. at integrating Muslims should give us hope that Islam can reform for the better.

[metatron]

How about a nation just say no to immigration?

[wsc]

I truly hope that this findings of this poll are accurate but as we saw in the recent election cycle the findings of polls can be divorced from reality, i.e. not even close to accurate.

[PoliticalThrowback]

doesn't matter what the individual thinks. their book says that those who are not Muslim's are to be treated as second class citizens.

[Corenair]

That's good to know, but doesn't actually answer the question fully. What about the education of their children ? What about the freedom to leave their faith ?

[Dbest]

I would love to see a source to back up his claims; until then ill remain skeptical