[Alama]

Even this loonie survey shows muslims to be the terroriszt idiots they are...

[headsonpikes]

Even among Europe's Muslim minorities, roughly one-in-seven in France, Spain, and Great Britain feel that suicide bombings against civilian targets can at least sometimes be justified to defend Islam against its enemies.

One in seven???

I wonder what the proportion is in North American muslim communities - one in seven?

Maybe only one in eleven. Maybe only one in fifteen.

Isn't that nice!

[fortheDeclaration]

Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance

Anyone who doesn't see Islam as being all of these is either a Muslim or a Democrat.

[george76]

Tolerance is a Western ideal, and the Islamists hate Western ideals.

This radicalized minority within Islam doesn't seek multiculturalism.

Their goal is monoculturalism: one world under radical Islam.

They are not at war for tolerance, but at war with tolerance.

[Right Wing Assault]

they are much more likely than Americans or Western Europeans to blame Western policies for their own lack of prosperity

Oh, right, we send hundreds of billions of dollars over to some of these people for their oil and they are poor. How stupid is that? Figure it out, Muzzles! Someone is robbing you blind and it isn't us.

[Publius6961]

Unfortunately, I do not view polls as representative of any view of reality other than identifying the delusional and the insane.
Hence, polls have absolutely no effect on my view of islam nor on the level of knowledge and understanding in the United States.

Bottom line: muslims, as everyone else, are judged by how they act. Both towards each other and towards non-muslims. Their record is appaling.

[sgtbono2002]

***Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. **8

Gee I wonder why?

Should Muslim countries be more prosperous than they are today? ---If their leaders stopped trying to make war and spent the oil riches on its population , they would be richer than Midas. I guess they are too stupid to rrealise that. same goes for Venezuela.

[winner3000]

(in most Muslim countries surveyed there has been a decline in support for terrorism.)

I thought the War on Terror was creating more terrorists...

[sageb1]

"The percentage of Turks expressing disbelief that Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks has increased from 43% in a 2002 Gallup survey to 59% currently. And this attitude is not limited to Muslims in predominantly Muslim countries - 56% of British Muslims say they do not believe Arabs carried out the terror attacks against the U.S., compared with just 17% who do...."

You can thank our own anti-American leftist, Bush-hating conspiracy theorists for this one.

[Master Shake]

"Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance."

More westerners reading the Koran, I see.

[steve-b]

The chasm between Muslims and the West is also seen in judgments about how the other civilization treats women. Western publics, by lopsided margins, do not think of Muslims as "respectful of women." But half or more in four of the five Muslim publics surveyed say the same thing about people in the West.

I see that four out of five Muslim publics prefers Bill Clinton's dictionary to Noah Webster's version.

[seasoned traditionalist]

Just accessed the full report at Pew site.

http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253

Of interest is that while Pew included the US in all other questions, "we" are conspicuously absent from the following:

"SUPPORT FOR SUICIDE BOMBING."

Violcence against civilian targets in order to defend Islam can be justified
Ofent/Rarely Sometimes Never

While Pew sampled French, Spanish, British and German muslims, there is no figures for "US muslims."

Either Pew could not find and "US muslims" (ESTIMATED NUMBER OF US MUSLIMS IS BETWEEN 5 - 8,000,000) or they intentionally did not want to include us or our views.

Wonder why? Maybe we might just get a little exercised over results? Or perhaps they don't want us to know just how many muzzies are here that as soon slit our throat (or would support such actions) as look at us Infidels?