Killing of bin Laden worsened Americans' views of U.S. Muslims, survey finds

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 15:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Instead of calming fears, the death of Osama bin Laden actually led more Americans to feel threatened by Muslims living in the United States, according to a new nationwide U.S. survey. In the weeks following the US military campaign that killed bin Laden, the head of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, American attitudes toward Muslim Americans took a significant negative shift, results showed.

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