And while 15 per cent of the general public considered adultery morally acceptable, only two per cent of Muslims felt the same way. More than 1,500 interviews were conducted in the UK alone.ģ% felt that sex outside marriage was morally acceptableĮxtra-marital sex was deemed morally acceptable by only three per cent of Muslims, compared to 82 per cent of the general public. The wide-ranging study, entitled The Gallup Coexist Index 2009, was based on data collected through polls of residents in more than 140 countries. However, the poll also found that the vast majority of Muslims have extremely conservative views on moral issues such as homosexuality and the death penalty, which differ dramatically from those held by the rest of the UK population. British Muslims were found to identify more strongly with the UK than the rest of the population, and have a much higher regard for the country's institutions. The reseach, a collaboration between Gallup and the Coexist Foundation, challenges the view that the country's 2.4 million Muslims are largely intolerant of the British way of life. A startlingly candid snapshot of the views and beliefs of Muslims living in Britain today has been uncovered by the first-ever study of Islamic interfaith relations across the world.
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