Measuring the backlash against the Muslim backlash (Shibley Telhami, Brookings)

Something remarkable has happened in the middle of an American presidential campaign noted for its inflammatory rhetoric about Islam and Muslims, and marred by horrific mass violence perpetrated on American soil in the name of Islam: American public attitudes toward the Muslim people and the Muslim religion have not worsened—in fact they have become progressively more favorable, even after the Orlando shooting. That’s what two new polls show, one taken two weeks before Orlando, the other two weeks after, to be released at the Brookings Institution on Monday.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/07/12-public-opinion-orlando-muslims-telhami