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| Two in five Americans say Islam 'is incompatible with US values' |
| 2018-11-03 |
| [Al Jazeera] A large proportion of non-Moslem Americans think Islam is incompatible with American values, research by the New America foundation and the American Moslem Institution found. According to the findings announced on Thursday, 56 percent of Americans believed Islam was compatible with American values and 42 percent said it was not. About 60 percent believed US Moslems were as patriotic as others, while 38 percent they were not. The study said that although a big majority of Americans - 74 percent - accepted there was "a lot" of bigotry against Moslems existed, 56 percent said they were concerned about "extremism" spreading within the Moslem community. Ex-FBI agent caught teaching police Islamophobic ideas Researchers found that Republicans were more likely to hold negative perceptions of Moslems and Islam, with 71 percent saying Islam was incompatible with American values. About 56 percent of Republicans also admitted they would be concerned if a mosque was built in their neighbourhood. A slight majority of Republicans disagreed with the statement that having more than 100 Moslem candidates in the midterm elections was a positive thing. Robert McKenzie, a senior fellow at the New America foundation and one of the authors of the study, said there were a number of factors that contributed the shaping of anti-Moslem sentiment, and that they were not limited to the political right. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Most polls are bias to |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-11-03 12:22 |
| #9 If that's the case then 3 of 5 need more education into the reality of Sharia law and Islam's rotten core of authoritarianism, slavery, and death. |
| Posted by: Albert Gray3362 2018-11-03 11:58 |
| #8 "We interviewed four people. Two out of five think Islam is incompatible with American values..." Journolist Math is hard |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-03 11:35 |
| #7 Two out of five because two are liberals and one isn't paying attention. To be honest the Muslims themselves probably consider Islam incompatible and once they have control.... |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-11-03 11:09 |
| #6 Re: #4: of the remaining 3, 2 are ignorant of the tenets of Islam and the other one is the enemy. |
| Posted by: Unomogum Crereling2785 2018-11-03 09:33 |
| #5 It's Al Jazeera. Handful of salt required. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-11-03 08:36 |
| #4 Only two out of five? |
| Posted by: Slolutle Cloluse3142 2018-11-03 08:29 |
| #3 BP said it all. pIslamic traditions of Moohamman are wholly illegal in every country run by humans. For good reason. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-11-03 05:31 |
| #2 Paedophilia, Murder, Robbery & Slavery are also illegal. Which means emulating Mo's "perfect" life is not possible in America. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-11-03 05:25 |
| #1 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... tl;dr: No official state religion. You can freely choose your faith, and no one will kill you if you change your mind. Yeah, that's pretty much incompatible with Islam. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-11-03 01:02 |