Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
In the years after 9/11, Gallup conducted the largest opinion poll ever attempted across the Muslim world, surveying people from Indonesia and South Asia to the Middle East, along with Muslim minority communities in the United States and Europe. This film walks through what that data actually showed on gender equality, terrorism, and democracy, and the results complicate the usual headlines: majorities across most surveyed countries reject attacks on civilians, and support for democratic government runs high even in places assumed to be hostile to it. Gallup researchers explain how the poll was built and the practical problems of surveying so many countries and languages at once, while Islamic scholars step in to give the numbers context, region by region and country by country. The film's real point is variation: opinions on women's rights or religious authority shift sharply depending on whether the respondent lives in Jakarta, Cairo, or Detroit. It treats a billion people as a population with disagreements, not a single voice, and lets the poll numbers carry that argument.