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US Views Of Islam Have Deteriorated In Past 25 Years

Zero Hedge · September 22, 2026

The view that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions is more widespread in the United States today than when Pew Research Center first asked Americans this question in March of 2002

244 individuals embraced Islam in Kuwait during the first half of Ramadan | IPC

ipc.org.kw · September 20, 2026

CSPII Commentary: IPC in Kuwait courts foreign workers with workplace dawa and post-conversion aid, while its own FAQ cites Koran 2:256: “There is no compulsion in religion.” Koran 9:29 still commands fighting and jizya “until they [Christians and Jews] pay the tribute readily, being brought low”—one of many doctrinal rules that have historically made life for non-Muslims in an Islamic country harder than life for a Muslim. Conversion can therefore look like a logical step for those workers. What they are almost certainly not told is what Mohammed prescribed if they later change their minds: Sahih al-Bukhari 6922, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”