How Much Discrimination Do Muslims Face in America?

The Atlantic’s Emma Green reports on new data from a Pew Research Center survey of American Muslims, in which 75 percent of the group said there is “a lot” of discrimination against them in the United States. Green writes, “Half of Americans say Islam is not part of ‘mainstream American society,’” and a significant portion of the bias against Muslims comes from Republicans and white evangelicals. She adds, “It’s not clear from this report that concrete experiences of discrimination have become more common under Trump.”

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