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Muslim-American views: poll results in eye of beholder
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 21:00.
Interesting. A Pew survey finds that 87% of Muslim Americans polled (just some 1,000 out of the total 2 million-plus) condemn the practice of suicide bombings. But for those under 30, the 13% finding them sometimes justified doubles to 26%. So the lefty InterPress Service headline states: "Major Poll Finds U.S. Muslims Mostly Mainstream." The reactionary New York Post editorializes May 23 (all caps in original, of course): "TIME BOMBS IN OUR MIDST" The Post also makes much of findings "that only 40% of U.S. Muslims believe that Arabs carried out the 9-11 attacks. Another 28% don't believe it and 32% said they had no view. Among 28% who doubted that Arabs were behind the conspiracy, one-fourth claim the U.S. government was responsible." We wonder if the results would be that different for the populace in general. See our last posts on media culture wars, the struggle within Islam and 9-11 conspiracy theory. |
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