Please click here to read/download the research on non-Muslim perceptions on Islam and Muslims including their views on how Islam is presented to the wider society (known as dawah in Islamic theology).
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The research was led by iERA's Senior Researcher Hamza Andreas Tzortzis. The results showed that the general population has displayed a negative perception concerning religion, Islam and Muslims. The dawah has had limited reach and it has not improved perceptions about Islam. There has also been a consistent trend of apparent neutrality, we believe this indicates apathy and indifference coupled with genuine ignorance about religion, specifically Islam. To put it into further context we believe that this perception lies on the negative end of the spectrum as options to provide positive answers were available in the questionnaire.
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Overall participants did seem to voice a range of opinions, mostly on the negative end of the spectrum, on subjects ranging from the role of women through to Muslim contribution, which presumably relates to information they had gained from sources other than Muslims and Islamic literature. This highlights a worrying trend about information in this modern age – that it is now largely imparted by Chinese Whispers or current narratives formed by those who have the power to shape discourse, rather than an educated interest in the literature or scholarly authority.
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Salam brother hamza, Alhamdulillah, great book, very interesting research and findings. Just wanted to point out my personal feed back. I think as Muslims living in the west we have a great responsibility in tackling these misconception, and being capable of dealing with these misconceptions. Obviously this research is based on people living within the UK, i wounder what the result would be in the Muslim world. As you yourself have pointed out in the past that Muslims in the Muslim world desire to live under Islam by the shari`ah. I would say without a proper model or a concrete example of the Islamic way of life in its totality it would be almost impossible to turn these figure as shown in the book upside down. Especially with the Papers and television against us. obviously this does not neglect the fact that, as citizens of the UK and being Muslim we have a greater task in taking Islam to our local community and neighbours. But i would argue Born Muslims who in theory should be less complicated to enlighten should be more priority, especially when the truth is already half delivered to them, or less misconception are present amongst them. i would stress the task laid out in the books sounds superb in reaching this goal.This is nothing but a personal view no bad intent at all intended, Just a thumbs up and inshallah i hope to see these activities soon. Mashallah keep up the good work. without a doubt i have learnt tones from reading this book.
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