{"id":2576,"date":"2011-03-10T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2011\/03\/study-says-engagement-rises-wi.php"},"modified":"2011-03-10T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T10:18:17","slug":"study-says-engagement-rises-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/03\/study-says-engagement-rises-wi","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Engagement Rises with Mosque Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims get underway, a political science professor says research shows that affiliation with a mosque increases Muslims&#8217; civic engagement.<br \/>\n&#8220;The more religious American Muslims happen to be, the more they participate in American politics,&#8221; said Karam Dana, who teaches at Tufts University.<br \/>\nDana and colleague Matt A. Barreto in 2008 completed the largest-ever survey of American Muslims, asking them, among other questions, whether Islam and the American political system are compatible.<br \/>\nOf those Muslims who do not regularly go to a mosque, 77 percent answered &#8220;yes,&#8221; Dana said. Among those who are regularly involved in a mosque, that figure rose to 95 percent.<br \/>\nThese findings appear to contradict assumptions underpinning the controversial hearings that Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y, will convene Thursday (March 10) as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Dana said.<br \/>\nDana noted that King in 2004 stated that the vast majority of American mosques were controlled by Islamic extremists and amounted to &#8220;an enemy living amongst us,&#8221; and that King in 2007 bemoaned the number of mosques in the nation because they bred &#8220;homegrown&#8221; terrorists.<br \/>\nLike other religious institutions in the United States, mosques have actually helped members assimilate into and support American democracy, Dana said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Decades of scholarship on religious institutions, be they churches or synagogues, have shown that they foster participation in the political system,&#8221; said Dana. &#8220;We believe that mosques are no different.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; LAUREN MARKOE<\/strong>, <em>Religion News Service<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims get underway, a political science professor says research shows that affiliation with a mosque increases Muslims&#8217; civic engagement. &#8220;The more religious American Muslims happen to be, the more they participate in American politics,&#8221; said Karam Dana, who teaches at Tufts University. 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