Islamic terrorism

=== Opinion surveys ===
* [[The Gallup Organization|Gallup]] conducted tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim countries between 2001 and 2007. It found that more than 90% of respondents condemned the killing of non-combatants on religious and humanitarian grounds.<ref name="australia.to">{{cite web |url=https://www.ispu.org/al-qaida-today-a-movement-at-a-crossroads/ |title=Al-Qaida today: a movement at the crossroads |date=14 May 2009 |author=Fawaz A. Gerges |author-link=Fawaz Gerges|access-date=7 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025152045/https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/al-qaida-today-the-fate-of-a-movement|archive-date=25 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[John Esposito]], using poll data from [[Gallup (company)|Gallup]], wrote in 2008 that Muslims and Americans were equally likely to reject violence against civilians. He also found that those Muslims who support violence against civilians are no more religious than Muslims who do not.<ref>{{cite web |title=Excerpt: 'Who Speaks for Islam?' |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87860378 |publisher=[[NPR]] |date=4 March 2008}}</ref>
* An earlier poll, conducted in 2005 by the [[Fafo Foundation]] in the Palestinian Authority, found that 65% of respondents supported the 9/11 attacks.<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/95535 65% of Palestinians Applaud Terror Attacks on US and Europe] Arutz Sheva</ref>
* A subsequent Gallup poll released in 2011 suggested "that one's religious identity and level of devotion have little to do with one's views about targeting civilians... it is human development and governance—not piety or culture—that are the strongest factors in explaining differences in how the public perceives this type of violence." The same poll concluded that populations of countries in the [[Organisation of the Islamic Conference]] were slightly more likely to reject attacks on civilians in all cases, both military and individual, than those in non-member countries.<ref name="views">{{cite web|title=Views of Violence|date=8 September 2011|url=http://www.gallup.com/poll/157067/views-violence.aspx|publisher=Gallup|access-date=31 January 2016}}</ref>
* Pew Research surveys in 2008, show that in a range of countries—Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Bangladesh—there have been substantial declines in the percentages saying suicide-bombings and other forms of violence against civilian targets can be justified to defend Islam against its enemies. Wide majorities say such attacks are, at most, rarely acceptable. The shift of attitudes against terror has been especially dramatic in Jordan, where 29% of Jordanians were recorded as viewing suicide-attacks as often or sometimes justified (down from 57% in May 2005). In the largest majority-Muslim nation, Indonesia, 74% of respondents agree that terrorist attacks are "never justified" (a substantial increase from the 41% level to which support had risen in March 2004); in Pakistan, that figure is 86%; in Bangladesh, 81%; and in Iran, 80%.<ref name="australia.to" />
* In Pakistan, despite the recent rise in the Taliban's influence, a poll conducted by Terror Free Tomorrow in Pakistan in January 2008 tested support for al-Qaeda, the Taliban, other militant Islamist groups and Osama bin Laden himself, and found a recent drop by half. In August 2007, 33% of Pakistanis expressed support for al-Qaeda; 38% supported the Taliban. By January 2008, al-Qaeda's support had dropped to 18%, the Taliban's to 19%. When asked if they would vote for al-Qaeda, just 1% of Pakistanis polled answered in the affirmative. The Taliban had the support of 3% of those polled.<ref name="australia.to" />
* A December 2008 poll conducted in Osama bin Laden's home country of Saudi Arabia showed that his compatriots have dramatically turned against him, his organisation, Saudi volunteers in Iraq, and terrorism in general. Indeed, confidence in bin Laden has fallen in most Muslim countries in recent years.<ref name="australia.to" />
* A poll conducted among Palestinians following the [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|Hamas October 7]] attacks, show that a 70% of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza supported the attacks.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Joffre |first=Tzvi |date=2023-12-13 |title=Palestinians largely support October 7 massacre, deny atrocities - poll |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-777918 |access-date=2023-12-13}}</ref>