Jesus taught Christians to “love thy neighbor.” According to a recent survey by researchers at Cornell University, however, the more religious the American, the less likely he is to love (or at least trust) his Muslim neighbors. For instance, 42 percent of the highly religious (versus only 15 percent of citizens who are “not very religious”) believe that American Muslims should have to register their whereabouts with the government; 34 percent (versus 13 percent) say that U.S. mosques should be monitored; and 40 percent (versus 19 percent) look favorably on government infiltration of Islamic civic and volunteer organizations. The highly religious are also more distrustful the more attention they pay to TV news.
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Unless you’re Muslim, you are more likely to
be killed by one. Just ask the family memebers
of Theo van Gogh.
The commenter above refers to the killing of Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh last year by a man of joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality.
The Atlantic item does not say there are no bad guys. It points out rather, that concern about Muslims in America appears to be heightened by religion.