Posted on 03/08/2006 11:12:11 PM PST by nj26
As the war in Iraq grinds into its fourth year, a growing proportion of Americans are expressing unfavorable views of Islam, and a majority now say that Muslims are disproportionately prone to violence, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The poll found that nearly half of Americans -- 46 percent -- have a negative view of Islam, seven percentage points higher than in the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, when Muslims were often targeted for violence.
Conservative and liberal experts said Americans' attitudes about Islam are fueled in part by political statements and media reports that focus almost solely on the actions of Muslim extremists.
According to the poll, the proportion of Americans who believe that Islam helps to stoke violence against non-Muslims has more than doubled since the attacks, from 14 percent in January 2002 to 33 percent today.
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The biggest contributors to the Hassidim and other Orthodox are the liberal reformist Jews. I have to think the same thing goes on in Islam where the most orthodox get lots of funding from moderate and lazy Muslims. Who like to live more loosely but respect & revere the defenders of the faith. Respect those who do what they are too lazy or unable to do.
Unfortunately in Islam the orthodox are bloody Jihadists out to conquer the infidel
"Islam's problem is that there are no moderates around to clean up Islam's current irresponsible behavior."
The reason is Islam has butchered all it's moderates. The gene pool is destroyed.
The Koran was the second book I've ever read where I closed it half way through and threw it in the garbage.
The first was Mein Kampf.
"...the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001...when Muslims were often targeted for violence."
The stupidity of this false remark is only outdone by the remarks of every single "expert" quoted. If the opinion of Muslims has declined over the past few years it certainly isn't the fault of our "elites" or even the media, it is the fault of Islamofacists world wide. The cartoon jihad was the last straw to my mind and I venture many others felt the same way.
I heard about that poster, is it real, or is it photoshopped? It seems to me like some protest warrior "Communists for Kerry" thing, too good to be true.
Well, don't that just say it all! "we're mad that you think we're violent and barbaric, so to disprove this, we will perpetrate acts of violence and barbarism..." If this is the true face of Islam,it is a sick, schizoid cult of the demonically posessed.
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And the MSM says, "No, no, no, no, no, you're not paying attention - hate Bush, not Islam."
Amazingly, I think it took the Battle of Kartoon to wake many.
Religion of peace my arse BUMP!
Gee, I'm shocked I tell you - SHOCKED!
AFAIK it's real.
Today's New York Post has an article citing taped quotes made by the executive director of ministerial services for the Dept. of Correction. He(Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil) states that 1)Muslim inmates are tortured by Correction Officers 2)The greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House 3) We have to stop allowing the Zionists of the Media to dictate what Islam is to us.
Sure sounds seditious (and not ministerial) to me but, then again it's not much different than what is regularly spouted by Dean, Gore, Rangel, Kerry...
That's an astonishingly low number. I guess it depends upon how they define "negative view."
What's with these blatantly lying journalists, Claudia Deane and Darryl Fears? Telling falsehoods about Christains Jews and plain old Americans so that the poor muslims won't feel so all alone in coping with their beheading addiction?
NONE of my 4 adult kids read the newspaper or watch TV news, a very wise choice , seeing as zero of these editors and few journalists have a commitment to basic honesty.
"....Often targeted for violenece......" makes me want to go out and talk 10 people into canceling their subscription
Exactly. And those that are the more moderate are completely marginal to the mainstream. Can you imagine a muslim apoligist like Ibrahim Cooper being invited to speak in a major mosque in Saudi Arabia or Gaza or Iran and telling the people not to hate the Jews and Christians? His head would be rolling on the floor within seconds.
The "tolerance" that muslims have for others is in direct inverse relationship to how "religious" they are.
I know a lot of muslims, some of them very sweet people. They are also very nominal, a little embarrassed about their religion, and not sure how to separate themselves from it. They know they are marginal, and without influence.
*shrug* It's higher in California...
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