Adam Serwer points to a new Gallup poll that explores the relationship between religion and the use of violence among Americans. The key take-away:

Muslims are by far the least likely among all religious groups to justify targeting civilians, whether done by the military or by “an individual person or a small group of persons.” Seventy-eight percent of Muslims say that military attacks on civilians are never justified, while the numbers for Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and atheists hover in the 50s.

Another question asked whether American Muslims repudiated Al-Qaeda: 92% of Muslim Americans claimed no sympathy with the terrorist organization; while only 56% of American Protestants answered the question in the same way.

All the more we ought to worry about Spencer Ackerman’s discovery of a pdf file that seems to have been used as recently as 2009 by the FBI to educate its agents about Islam.