Also this is the current religion section that Id like to check with other users to reach consensus What do you guys think  A  national telephone survey in English of a sample of  IranianAmericans commissioned by the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans and conducted by Zogby Research Services asked the respondents what their religions were  The responses broke down as follows Muslim  No response   atheistrealisthumanist  agnostic  Bahai  Jewish  Protestant  Roman Catholic  Zoroastrian  and Other  The survey had a cooperation rate of  The margin of error for the results was   percentage points with higher margins of error in subgroups  Due to the laws regarding apostasy in Islam some Iranians do not claim Islam as their religion but would in fear of persecution The Central Committee for ExMuslims was founded by Iranian Ehsan Jami with an aim to support apostates and to bring forth the reality of womens rights violations in the religion According to Harvard University professor Robert D Putnam the average Iranian is slightly less religious than the average American IranianAmericans are distancing themselves from Islam having accepted the negative characteristics associated with the religion This is due to Islam being imposed on the Iranians through war and invasion equating to authoritarianism brutality and corruption In the novel Social Movements in th Century Iran Culture Ideology and Mobilizing Frameworks author Stephen C Poulson adds that Western ideas are making Iranians irreligious  There are religious and ethnolinguistic differences among the Muslim Jewish Bahai Zoroastrian Christian Armenian Azerbaijani Kurdish and Assyrian groupsNilou Mostofi Who We Are The Perplexity of IranianAmerican Identity The Sociological Quarterly published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Midwest Sociological Society Vol  No  Autumn  pp  p  Calculating the percentage of Christian IranianAmericans is difficult because most Iranian Christians are of Armenian or Assyrian origin and selfidentify as such rather than as Iranian