Poll: British Muslims Most Anti-Western In Europe
Som Patidar - All Headline News Staff Writer London, United Kingdom (AHN) - A global poll published by the Washington-based Pew Global Attitudes Project claimed that British Muslims are the most anti-western in Europe. The poll also says the majority of Britain's 1.8 million community viewed western populations as selfish, arrogant, greedy and immoral. Just over half said westerners were violent. Moreover, Muslim attitudes in Britain were found to more resembled public opinion in Islamic countries in the Middle East and Asia than elsewhere in Europe. On the other hand, just under a third of British non-Muslims said they viewed Muslims as violent, but this was significantly fewer than 60 percent of non-Muslims in Spain, the 52 percent in Germany, the 45 percent in the US and 41 percent in France. And their the attitudes towards Muslims in Britain was still more positive than in the U.S., Germany and Spain and about the same as in France.
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