Thirty-five percent (35%) of U.S. voters now believe that America’s relationship with the Muslim world will be worse one year from now than it is today. That’s a seven-point jump from a month ago.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that only 19% say that relationship will be better in one year’s time. Forty-one percent (41%) say it will be the same as it is now.

In early June, President Obama delivered a major speech in Cairo, Egypt, reaching out to Muslims worldwide. Just prior to that speech, 28% of voters said the U.S. relationship with the Muslim world would be better a year from now, while 21% expected it to get worse.

Rasmussen Reports has been asking voters regularly since then whether America’s relationship with the global Islamic community will get better, worse or stay the same. Until the latest survey, voters were far more closely divided, with those expecting better relations running as high as 32% just after the president’s speech and those fearing things will get worse never exceeding 28%.

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Men are far more skeptical than women about the future relationship of the United States and the Muslim world.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Republicans expect the relationship to worsen over the next 12 months, compared to 23% of Democrats and 32% of voters not affiliated with either party.

Forty-eight percent (48%) of Americans nationwide believe that it is the responsibility of American Muslims to speak out against terrorist attacks on the United States, but 27% disagree.

Forty-nine percent (49%) say it is at least somewhat likely that there will be a significant terrorist attack in the United States in the next year. But that’s down from 70% in the summer of 2007 and 58% in December 2008.

Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters now regard the Islamic nation of Iran as the biggest threat to U.S. national security, up 10 points from a month earlier. Fifty-one percent (51%) say the president has not been aggressive enough in responding to Iran's nuclear program.

Americans are closely divided over whether more U.S. troops should be sent to Afghanistan even though 69% of Americans say it is very likely that al-Qaeda will return if the radical Islamic Taliban takes over the country again.

Only 43% of voters believe the United States and its allies are winning the war on terror, down from 55% the week Obama took office in January.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of Americans say most of their fellow countrymen have already forgotten the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in which 3,000 died, but 39% disagree. Still, just 30% of voters have at least some confidence in the ability of the United Nations to combat terrorism.

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