1. For a historical overview of Evangelical Christian attitudes toward Islam, see Thomas S. Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslim from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).
2. For an overview of public opinion research on favorability of Islam, see Erik C. Nisbet, Ronald Ostman, and James Shanahan, “Public Opinion toward Muslim Americans: Civil Liberties and the Role of Religiosity, Ideology, and Media Use.” In Muslims in Western Politics, ed. Abdulkader H. Sinno (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009), p. 165.
3. Kerem Ozan Kalkan, GeoffreyC. Layman, and Eric M. Uslander, “‘Bands of Others’? Attitudes toward Muslims in Contemporary American Society.” The Journal of Politics 71: 3 (July 2009), pp. 847–862.
4. John Sides and Kimberly Gross, “The Origins of Anti-Muslim Stereotyping,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2010.
5. Richard Wike and Brian F. Grim, “Western Views toward Muslims: Evidence from a 2006 Cross-National Survey.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 22: 1 (2010), pp. 4–25.