Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think examines the professional opinions of Muslims around the world as revealed in the world’s first major poll conducted by leading polling firm Gallup.
Gallup researchers start by asking the questions that haunt every American. Why is there so much anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world? Who are the extremists and how do Muslims view them? What do Muslims like and dislike about the West? What do Muslim women really want?
Decisive political decisions depend on these questions. They continue to cause bitter disagreements in public. But for all the heat and controversy, the real perspective of the world’s Muslims is conspicuously missing in this debate.
Now, we have missing answers and statistics collected, analyzed and analyzed not by experts but by professional researchers.
As part of this groundbreaking six-year project, Gallup conducted tens of thousands of interviews with residents of 35 predominantly Muslim countries, as well as minority populations in Europe and the United States. The wide-ranging survey provides results for the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims with a plus or minus 3 percent accuracy rate.
Focusing on issues such as gender justice, terrorism and democracy, Inside Islam deftly unpacks this remarkable data and shows how it challenges the commonly held notion that Muslims and the West are at war. Like the research, the film emphasizes shared relationships based on facts — not fears.
Directed by: Rob Gardner
