New Poll Reveals Americans' Double Standard About Religious Violence | ThinkProgress

A Public Religion Research Institute poll released Thursday finds that 75 percent of Americans believe that self-identified Christians “who commit acts of violence in the name of Christianity are not really Christian.” Only about 19 percent of respondents said they believe these types of perpetrators are authentic Christians.
However, Americans don’t extend the same logic to the Islamic faith.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/10/3730520/americans-prri-statistics-christian-muslim/