The huge survey involving more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations initiated after the September 11, 2001 attacks in US suggests that overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned them and subsequent attacks, citing religious reasons.

The poll, which claims to represent the views of 90% the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, is to be published next month as part of a book entitled Who Speaks For Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think.

“Muslims want self-determination, but not an American-imposed and defined democracy. They don’t want secularism or theocracy,” said the professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington.

“What the majority wants is democracy with religious values.”

Sources: BBC