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Poll: Many Americans Uncomfortable With Muslims
http://www.wlky.com/news/29096286/detail.html ^ | 9/6/2011 | WLKY

Posted on 09/06/2011 7:22:25 PM PDT by Morgana

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ten years after 9/11, Americans are wrestling with their opinions of Muslims, a new survey found, and where Americans get their TV news is playing a role in those opinions.

Nearly half of Americans would be uncomfortable with a woman wearing a burqa, a mosque being built in their neighborhood or Muslim men praying at an airport. Forty-one percent would be uncomfortable if a teacher at the elementary school in their community were Muslim.

Forty-seven percent of survey respondents said the values of Islam are at odds with American values.

The Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution conducted the survey and issued a report, "What it Means to be American: Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America 10 Years after 9/11."

"Americans are wrestling with fear, but on the other hand they're also wrestling with acceptance," said Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlky.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cameljockeys; crushislam; islam; islamofascism; jihad; muslims; muzzies; ragheads; sourcetitlenoturl; terrorist; wot
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OH GEE....I really wonder why???
1 posted on 09/06/2011 7:22:29 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Libs have pushed for 6 decades their - Separation of Church and state!

Here in California we are raised to be uncomfortable with religious extremists.


2 posted on 09/06/2011 7:25:49 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Democrats are violent. Prisons are overflowing with democrats convicted of violent crimes.)
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To: Morgana

Something funny about a woman dressed in a shroud? Nah.


3 posted on 09/06/2011 7:26:08 PM PDT by caveat emptor (FUBO)
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To: Morgana

Well that’s odd.

A poll trying to determine how Americans feel about Muslims...right before the 10-year anniversary of 9-11.

What a pathetic attempt by liberals to paint Americans as still intolerant haters.

But the last I checked, Muslim fathers still murder their daughters for “honor,” Islamofascists are still taking over countries in the Middle East to impose a draconian system known as Sharia law, and Islamofascists are still murdering people by the score with bombs.

So, CNN, who are the real “haters?”


4 posted on 09/06/2011 7:26:32 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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“...where Americans get their TV news is playing a role in those opinions.”

Oh gee - let me guess - if they watch evil Fox news (supposedly also partly Saudi), they will hate Moslems?


5 posted on 09/06/2011 7:26:45 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Morgana

I wasn’t there, but I smelled it. Most horrible smell I’ve ever had the misfortune of experiencing.


6 posted on 09/06/2011 7:27:32 PM PDT by wastedyears (Of course you realize, this means war.)
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To: Morgana

In other news, water is wet.


7 posted on 09/06/2011 7:27:59 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Morgana

Let’s see.......hundreds of thousands of innocent dead and many more hundreds of thousands damaged for the rest of their lives. Families ripped apart in an instant forever, beheadings on video, all in the name of an insane child molester and his black rock god........yep, it all makes sense......


8 posted on 09/06/2011 7:28:12 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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To: Morgana

Ya think.....They’re a bunch of murdering ba***** and the rest of them are supporting them by being part of that “so called religion”...which it is not.


9 posted on 09/06/2011 7:28:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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..they kill their wife’s at the change of weather, kill innocents because of the thrill, the remaining practicing ones celebrate by handing out candy to their kids....oh yeah kids, they are willing to strap bombs to youngsters as young as 4.....

but not to worry, they are peaceful.


10 posted on 09/06/2011 7:29:41 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Morgana

Robert P. Jones is wrestling with logic.


11 posted on 09/06/2011 7:29:59 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: caveat emptor

Dressed like they’re on their way to Carousel. Quite telling.


12 posted on 09/06/2011 7:30:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: Morgana

Are Blacks uncomfortable with Klansmen? Is icecream terrified of Rosie O’Donnel?


13 posted on 09/06/2011 7:31:07 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!! Laz for President!)
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Perhaps because we have longer memories?

I remember the celebrations in the Muslim world.

I especially remember the Palestinians, and a certain ugly woman in particular, dancing in the streets and handing out sweets in celebration.

14 posted on 09/06/2011 7:34:37 PM PDT by rdcbn
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'Khan, a practicing Muslim, was particularly disturbed by the attitudes toward Muslims and what he called a misunderstanding of sharia law. "Sharia is just a prop, an attempt to say, 'we just don't know and like Muslims.' "

...Uh ...no Khan.....Sharia law sucks.
15 posted on 09/06/2011 7:35:38 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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OH GEE....I really wonder why???

You took the words out of my mouth (or keyboard)
16 posted on 09/06/2011 7:35:53 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Morgana

The Muslims who want to marry your 6 year old daughter? The Muslims who want to force dhimmitude and then conversion on every nation they invade? The Muslims that want women covered head to toe and treated worse than dogs? The Muslims who celebrate and hand out candy after terrorist atacks and raise “charity” funds for the families of suicide bombers?

You mean THOSE Muslims??


17 posted on 09/06/2011 7:36:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Morgana
Lemme think.....

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Iran_1

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MMHD_cartoon

18 posted on 09/06/2011 7:36:57 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Morgana

Lost a cousin in the Towers, ask me how I feel.


19 posted on 09/06/2011 7:40:14 PM PDT by doc1019 (You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.)
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To: Morgana

I’m with Juan Williams on this one.


20 posted on 09/06/2011 7:41:27 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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