Americans Divided Over Whether Islam More Likely Than Other Religions to Encourage Violence Among its Believers

At Pew Research, "Continuing Divide in Views of Islam and Violence" (via Memeorandum). Statistically, it's a wash, with 40 percent saying Islam is more likely to promote violence and 42 percent disagreeing. What's really interesting are the ideological differences, because, you know leftists are terror- and domestic beheading-enablers, especially tea party-hating lefties:

Political and ideological divisions are even wider: By roughly three-to-one (66% to 21%), conservative Republicans say Islam encourages violence more than other religions. Moderate and liberal Republicans are divided – 46% say Islam is more likely to encourage violence, 47% say it is not.

By more than two-to-one (61% to 29%), liberal Democrats say that Islam is not more likely than other religions to promote violence. Conservative and moderate Democrats, by a smaller margin (48% to 31%), agree.

Fully 67% of those who agree with the Tea Party movement say Islam is more associated with violence than other religions. Among those who disagree with the Tea Party, the balance of opinion is nearly reversed – 62% say Islam is no more likely than other religions to promote violence while 24% say it is. Among the large share of the public that offers no opinion of the Tea Party, 38% say Islam is more likely to promote violence while about the same number (41%) disagrees.