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| 2007-07-24 |
| By Robert Spencer A new Newsweek Poll on American attitudes toward Muslims and Islam has found that 46 percent of Americans believe that the United States is taking in too many Muslim immigrants. 32 percent think that Muslims in America are less loyal to the United States than they are to Islam. 28 percent believe that the Qur’an condones violence, and 41 percent hold that Islamic culture “glorifies suicide.” 54 percent are either “somewhat worried” or “very worried” about Islamic jihadists in this country, and 52 percent support FBI surveillance of mosques, with the same percentage rejecting the claim of American Muslim advocacy groups that Muslims are being singled out by investigators and police. What are we to make of these figures? Do they mean that American Muslim advocacy groups have to do more to combat “Islamophobia”? That is the likely response: watch now for the follow-up stories about “Islamophobia,” in which the onus for all the attitudes displayed in this poll is placed firmly and solely upon non-Muslim Americans, as if Muslims were an entirely innocent, passive group that was doing nothing whatsoever to make anyone suspicious or angry at all. Newsweek itself led this off by asserting in another article published along with the poll that Muslims in America are “vulnerable as never before.” That story began with an account of a Muslim in Cleveland asking George W. Bush: “What are we doing with public diplomacy to change the hearts and minds of a billion and a half Muslims around the world?” The unspoken assumption behind this question is that Muslim fury at the West stems entirely from the actions of the United States and other Western countries, and not from anything within the Islamic world itself. Daud Abdullah, the Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), expressed another aspect of this view after the recent jihad plots were discovered in London and Glasgow, when he suggested that the religion of the attackers was incidental to their plots: “Let’s not create a hypothetical problem…it can be the work of Muslims, Christians, Jews or Buddhists.” The prevailing view is that the Islamic Faith of today’s terrorists has nothing to do with their actions, and those who suspected otherwise are simply bigots who are drawing an unwarranted connection between Islam and terrorism. But it is some Muslims who are themselves making that connection, as the recent Pew Research Center poll of Muslims in America revealed: twenty-six percent of Muslims between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine affirmed that there could be justification in some (unspecified) circumstances for suicide bombing, and five percent of all the Muslims surveyed said that they had a favorable view of Al-Qaeda. Given the Pew Center’s estimate of 2.35 million Muslims in America, and the total of thirteen percent that avowed a belief that suicide bombings could ever be justified, that’s over 300,000 supporters of suicide attacks. And 117,500 supporters of Al-Qaeda. Rest at link |
| Posted by:ed |
| #8 All of the proof for suspecting a large percentage of muslims and their religion is in the Pew Survey, recent histories like the bloody borders project, and the stated doctrines of Tayyiya etc. What we are facing isn't the absence of a reasonable basis for suspicion, heightened surveillance and limiting to zero all additional immigration. What we are facing is the foolish ignorance of our own countrymen and political leaders who simply cannot reconcile these proofs with the way they wish the world would be..... self delusion because the alternative would be the collapse of moral relativism, secular humanism that has a flawed basis, and the realization that Islam isn't a religion of peace but conquest..... Oh and they would have to accept that we had to be suspicious and mean to them... and that we neanderthal conservatives might actually have it right... God Save the Republic from our own weak-willed, ignorant fellow-citizens.... |
| Posted by: JustAboutEnough 2007-07-24 23:30 |
| #7 Given the Pew Center’s estimate of 2.35 million Muslims in America, and the total of thirteen percent that avowed a belief that suicide bombings could ever be justified, that’s over 300,000 supporters of suicide attacks. And 117,500 supporters of Al-Qaeda. Those numbers are both—most likely—understated and reason enough on their own to deport every single American Muslim why hasn’t the worldwide Islamic community been waging jihad on a large scale up until relatively recent times? Nyazee says it is only because they have not been able to do so: "the Muslim community may be considered to be passing through a period of truce. In its present state of weakness, there is nothing much it can do about it." The Western world is beyond foolish in allowing Islam to gain any further strength. It must be crushed at the earliest opportunity and vigorously suppressed until extinction or reformation happens, I care not which. the ideology that fuels those who are determined to destroy us is deeply rooted within Islam, and peaceful Muslims are doing little to root it out. Which makes them not very "peaceful", now doesn't it? Whatever number of truly "peaceful" Muslims there are, they are so few in total as to be entirely negligible. They have done so little to reverse the current state of Islamic hostility that their continued survival is no longer anyone's responsibility but their own. It should provide the foundation for a new public call to Muslims in America to renounce Sharia and Islamic supremacism, and to institute comprehensive programs in American schools and mosques that teach against the jihad ideology and the necessity for Muslims to live peacefully with non-Muslims as equals on an indefinite basis. Taqiyya makes any such notion irrelevant. Islam's self-absolution of its own perfidy disqualifies all Muslims from participating in civilized society. They must be recongregated back in their nations of origin and left to rot in the corruption they are so very fond of. For the people who are “somewhat worried” or “very worried” about Islamic terrorism in the U.S. today are not “Islamophobes.” And they deserve a realistic appraisal of this problem by their elected officials. This had better become the byword for any politician that wants to set foot in office. Until Americans hold their political leadership to this one single standard we will experience nothing but more terrorism at home and overseas. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-24 18:44 |
| #6 Nimble__ those "folks" are long gone. Folks these days want to ignore the fact that half the world wants to destroy them |
| Posted by: Thaigum Scourge of the Weak3823 2007-07-24 18:05 |
| #5 Americans felt the same way about Germans in the early 1900's that's why we stopped eating sauer kraut and started eating Liberty Cabbage. The muzzies should consider that the plurality of Americans had German blood and no Germans flew planes into buildings but look at what happened to Germany in the next 50 years. They are really messing with the wrong folks. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-07-24 17:32 |
| #4 Either those numbers are really low or you've got an uninformed public. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-24 17:19 |
| #3 28 percent believe that the QurÂ’an condones violence... That is a worrisomely low percentage - taqiyyah and ignorance still run rampant. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-07-24 14:19 |
| #2 Personally, I am islamophobic. I admit it. I am wary of islam, and do not trust muslims. I would not want a muslim in a sensitive position in government. And I sure as heck would not want a muslim covering my "6" in combat. Is it wrong? I am sure. Am I sorry? Yes, I am sorry that islam is so contaminated that it has jaundiced a "Pollyanna" like me. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-07-24 12:54 |
| #1 five percent of all the Muslims surveyed said that they had a favorable view of Al-Qaeda. The %5 need to leave. Now! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-24 12:34 |