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Why the US allows 70,000 Muslims to immigrate into the US every year, thereby importing a terrorism problem: Only 52% of Evangelicals view Islam as a violent religion, while healthy majorities of everyone else (mainliners, agnostics, etc) believe that Islam is an essentially peaceful religion:
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/us.evangelicals.split.over.whether.islam.is.violent/32260.htm
Elders (ages 67 and older) are also less like likely than Mosaics (ages 18 to 28) to have a very favourable perception of the religion and are more likely to have a very unfavourable perception.
More than half of evangelical Christians (52 per cent) view Islam as "essentially a violent religion," a new report from Barna Group reveals, though only about a quarter (26 per cent) of all American adults feel the same way.
Despite the general perception of Islam within the evangelical community, 68 per cent of evangelicals agree with the statement: "Peace between Christians and Muslims is possible."
Researchers also found that 79 per cent of mainline Christians, 82 per cent of college graduates and 75 per cent of all American adults also believe such peace is possible.
The report indicates that those who associate with different religious groups tend to view Islam differently. Only 30 per cent of non-evangelical born again Christians, 26 per cent of Catholics and 20 per cent of people who are agnostic or have no faith also consider Islam to be violent. In contrast, 62 per cent of people who are agnostic or who have no faith agree that "Islam is essentially a peaceful religion," and 59 per cent of Catholics, 47 per cent of non-evangelical born again Christians and 27 per cent of evangelicals agree.
