 Please complete the Middle East IQ Quiz to the best of your ability

 When you hear the world “Muslim” what is the first thing that comes to your mind?  2005 – 6% Positive comments: good religion, good people, faithful, devout”  2005 – 57% Neutral Comments: mosque, religion, desert”  2005 – 26% Negative Comments “Violence, hatred, terrorist, war, and guns”

 Muslims teach their children to hate unbelievers  Muslims value life less than other people  The Muslim religion teaches violence and hatred

 Sunni Muslims  Follow the teaching of Muhammad  Recognize caliphs as successors  Shiites Muslims  Believe heirs of Ali are successors

 Because of security needs, the civil liberties of American Muslims should be restricted  51% disagreed  17% “Its ok to lock up Muslims just in case they are planning terrorist attacks”

 Followers of the religion of Islam are called Muslims  AKA I’m a Muslim, My religion is Islam

 50% know about the Qu’ran  1/3 knew that Christians, Jews, and Muslims worship the same God  80% said their knowledge of Muslims comes from television

 2005 – only 2% responded that they are very knowledge of Islam  39% - somewhat knowledgeable  60% - not very knowledgeable or knew nothing at all

 Arab is a nationality – where most religions began  Muslim is a person who accepts the Islamic religion  Muslims use many different languages, while Arabs use the Arabic language  Arabs originate in the Middle East, while Muslims can be found all over the world  Muslims are more numerous than Arabs

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