U.S Mus lims More Mainstream USS Brit Fra Ger Spa Percent low income compared in Intuslim countries
When asked whether they think of themselves first as an American or as a Muslim, 47% of Muslims in the U.S. think of themselves first in terms of their religion, while 28% identify themselves first as Americans and 18% volunteer that they identify as both. At 46%, French Muslims are about equally as likely as those in the U.S. to think of themselves first as Muslim. However, Muslim Americans are less likely to identify primarily with their religion than are Muslims living in Britain, Germany, and Spain.
Roughly six-in-ten Muslim Americans (62%) say that the quality of life for Muslim women in the U.S. is better than the quality of life for women in most Muslim countries, while 7% say it is worse, and 23% believe it is about the same. French Muslims are equally likely to think that life is better for Muslim women in their country, while in Britain, Germany and Spain, Muslims are somewhat less likely to hold this view.
U.S Mus lims More Mainstream  | USS Brit Fra Ger Spa  | +23  | +22  | Percent low  | 18 + 18  | income compared  | with general public  | Think of self as  | Intuslim first, not  | American/Britishl  | French/Germani  | Spanish  | 58 62  | 50 46  | Life is better for  | women here than  | in Intuslim countries  | 51 52  | Very concerned  | 35  | about Islamic  | 29 29  | extremism in the  | world these days 