also this is the current religion section that i'd like to check with other users to reach consensus what do you guys think a national telephone survey in english of a sample of iranian americans 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 atheist realist humanist agnostic baha i 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 sub groups 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 ex muslims was founded by iranian ehsan jami with an aim to support apostates and to bring forth the reality of women's rights violations in the religion according to harvard university professor robert d putnam the average iranian is slightly less religious than the average american iranian americans 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 baha'i zoroastrian christian armenian azerbaijani kurdish and assyrian groups nilou mostofi who we are the perplexity of iranian american 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 iranian americans is difficult because most iranian christians are of armenian or assyrian origin and self identify as such rather than as iranian