Muslims in Europe are less happy, more likely to support their government, and more likely to have significant relations with people of other faiths—than their non-Muslim countrymen and –women.

This according to a new study released by Gallup, drawing on research previously done during their global survey of Muslims.

What’s really interesting to me, navel-gazing American that I am, is that when respondents from the United States and Canada were included for comparison, North Americans came off as far more likely than their European counterparts to agree that they’ve learned something from people of another faith in the last year.

That part made me proud, I must say. Over the 20-plus years I’ve been watching Europe, this may be the first time I’ve seen pollsters add a challenging question (that of learning from someone in the last year) to the usual, bland, tolerance questions, which always strike me as condescending.