An extensive survey that exposes the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, of the Muslim Community in our midst, in America.
The Pew Research Center conducted more than 55,000 interviews to obtain a national sample of 1,050 Muslims living in the United States. Interviews were conducted in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu.
FROM THE INTRO:
The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world.....
But there are some extrememly disturbing elements:
Muslim Americans reject Islamic extremism by larger margins than do Muslim minorities in Western European countries, however...
More than half of Muslim Americans believe that the U.S. government singles Muslims out for extra surveillance.
More than half of Muslims overall hold a very unfavorable view of al-Qaida -- but only 36 percent of African-American Muslims do.
Relatively few Muslim Americans believe the U.S.-led war on terror is a sincere effort to reduce terrorism.
Only one in four Muslims believes that Arab men conducted the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Younger Muslims are more likely to say that suicide bombing in defense of Islam can be, at least some times, justified.
One-quarter of Muslims under age 30 said suicide bombing is legitimate on some occasions.
That compares with 6 percent of older Muslims.
Thus the "Good News", supposedly, is that "Nonetheless, absolute levels of support for Islamic extremism among Muslim Americans are quite low, especially when compared with Muslims around the world."
I am just soooo relieved! NOT!
Until there is a Million Muslim March on Washington to show support for the fight against terror, support Israel's right to exist, and the assimilation of the Palestinians into the already existing Muslim Countries, as should have been done in the 1950's, support Democratic, Free, and Modern, Governments in the Middle East, support equality, and freedom from "slavery" for Women, denounce "Radical" Islam and ALL elements of the Koran that require the conquering, and conversion, of the "Infidel" ( That's everyone who is not Muslim. ) by any means at hand, from Deception, Lying, and Propaganda, to Violence, and Killing, and declare their intention to support, unequivocably, complete assimilation into the Western, Modern World [ Rooting out Terrorist Cells, and Terrorist Support, and Apologist Organizations, and the Islamofascists that have infiltrated U.S. Communities, Mosques, and Schools ( Madrasses, and the like. ), would be a great place to start this Modernization. ] ......
I refuse to believe that there is such a person as a "Moderate" Muslim, and that Islam is a "Religion of Peace."
The article: Pew Research Center: Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream.
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