The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) was founded in 2002 as a research institution seeking to develop objective, solution-oriented research about challenges and opportunities facing American Muslims. As written in the Columbia Journalism Review, “Similar to Pew or Gallup, the Institute uses survey data to gauge the attitudes of Muslim Americans, and the general American public, on a wide range of topics in its annual American Muslim Poll (AMP). Those topics include political leanings, attitudes on censorship, experiences of discrimination, and responses to religiously motivated violence.”[1]