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RAY SUAREZ (Newshour): Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks and American wars in two Muslim nations, a Gallup survey shows strong positive feelings among Muslim Americans about their prospects in this country.
Close to 4,000 Muslims, more than 850,000 Americans in all, were polled. The findings: More Muslim Americans, 60 percent, believed they are thriving in the U.S., more than either Protestants or Catholics, and just about equal to Jews. And 93 percent thought their fellow Muslim Americans were loyal to the U.S. That belief in Muslim loyalty was shared by smaller majorities of Protestants, Catholics and Jews.
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MOHAMED YOUNIS, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies: Now, we also found that, across all major religious groups in the United States, those who strongly identify with people across the world who share their faith are no more or less likely to strongly identify with the United States. So, in that way, Muslim Americans, again, are very similar to a lot of the other religious groups that we see in this country.
Faith plays an important part in their life but at the same time, they also strongly identify with the country and don't necessarily see the two as competing.
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