Posted on 06/27/2006 1:00:10 PM PDT by white trash redneck
(only 32 percent of the British sample view Muslims as violent)
Based on the fact (in a later part of the article) that British Muslims have the most virulent views of the West, the 32% should be increasing with time.
Stupid question: Has ANYONE gone and (actually) read this report?
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other
Europe's Muslims More Moderate
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253
(for those who don't know how to use Google simply click above link)
A quick look at the report will willl show this fine piece of reporting (/sarcasm) is spin worthy of anything found in the NY Times...or Move-On.org
(Example)
Most have little or no confidence in bin Laden
French Muslims (A lot/some) 5% (Not too much/ no confidence) 93%
Greman Muslims 7% 83%
Spainish Muslims 16% 75%
Turkey 4% 79%
Jordan 24% 74%
Egypt 26% 71%
Indonesia 33% 72%
Pakistan 38% 30%
Nigerian Muslims 61% 33%
Exactly how does the study cast light on "How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other" when they only interviewed Muslims? Wouldn't a better title for the study be "How Muslims View The West?"
See reply 62
'Daniel Pipes should know better I am very disappointed in him.'
I took it that he was merely reporting some of the responses and leaving the reader to make their own interpretations...
Cherry picking facts is not sometthing I expect from Pipes.
yes, I'd like to see a little condemnation of some of the 'facts'...but the respnses are so 'horrific' that I gave him a pass and thought that the irrationality speaks for itself...
The responders are murderous lunatics. Or they know how to push the buttons of the media and the pollsters...
By that time, they will all be in Eurabia
Thanks bitt, I get enough pings now, lol.
Peaceful harmony?
It is leading to "something else altogether":
Armageddon.
The greatest struggle in human history, so violent, bloody and gruesome that it will make the Holocaust resemble a pajama party by comparison.
And - at least today - their side has a better chance of winning than does ours. I hope that changes.
- John
Does anyone think things are going to get better and we're all going to live in peaceful harmony?
Maybe you could show me one place/time where people lived in "peaceful harmony"? Because I've not been able to find it.
I agree that competitive conflict is the way of the physical world and competitive conflict is certainly a part of human nature. No matter how civilized we pretend we are, the law of the jungle lives and breathes in each and every one of us. However, we do find productive outlets that release these energies, such as with sports or business. We often do seem to be able to work through our differences without killing each other much of the time.
Peace and harmony might not be lasting, but when I look around the world since the end of the cold war at just about every conflict, war, etc. what group seems to be the cause? Muslims. Muslims against each other. Muslims against the world.
Throughout history, on a local and global scale, this one group doesn't play well with others, doesn't want to play well with others and this behavior seems to be escalating. I think it's going to get much worse before it gets better and, despite what the left might believe, appeasment or pretending it's not happening won't make it go away.
The thing about it is God is not through dealing with them yet.
If you read and study Ezekiel God does punish them for the way they have been treating their brothers down through the ages.
He deals with them Himself in Eze 38&39 and the stage is being set for that now.
Then He deals with the rest of the world for the way for they/we have treated Israel and Him in Revelation.
Isn't that an interesting coincidence? I was thinking that's about how many Muslims we are going to have to kill, to bring the rest to heel once and for all.
-ccm
Moral of the story: DO NOT ACCOMODATE THEM.
Thanks for the ping!
I'm guessing that the British Muslims are more outspoken in their hate because they know they are protected by Anglo Saxon common law instead of harsher Napoleonic Law in the rest of Europe.
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