Posted on 04/24/2007 8:18:27 PM PDT by Flavius
CAIRO - One of the most alarming findings of a new poll of attitudes in four Muslim countries is that a majority of respondents say they support two of Al Qaeda's chief goals: They want strict Islamic law, or sharia, in Muslim countries and to "unify all Islamic countries into a single state, or Caliphate."
At first blush that would appear to align these Muslims with the interests of a sworn enemy of America. But a closer look at attitudes in Egypt and Pakistan, two of the countries surveyed, reveals a more nuanced perspective that also welcomes democracy and freedom of religion.
"The notions of the Caliphate and sharia resonate with deep-seated values and cultural history, and Osama [bin Laden] can reach his audience by employing such messages, … but publics don't necessarily have a desire for every particular, such as cutting off hands," says Stephen Weber, of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which helped conduct the poll, in an e-mail response to questions. The poll was carried out by WorldPublicOpinion.org.
"Generally, it seems fair to say that Osama understands his audiences rather well," he continues. "His calls for the application of sharia and a new caliphate touch some values in Muslim communities, particularly in the Arab countries we studied."
A useful analogy, he says, is to consider the fact that many Americans support Judeo-Christian values and the Ten Commandments, "but few would endorse stoning an adulteress."
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
It’s called cognitive dissonance.
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The “separation of church and state” crowd should pay attention to the looming theocracy, the one that funds the expansion of Islam into the United States while at the same time forbidding the free exercise and missionary advocacy of religion (or of atheism) in those same Islamic nations (specifically Saudi Arabia).
There should be no acceptance for muslim “dominance” by claim of divine right. Those “muslim” nations were Christian and other faiths before the warlord conquered the Middle East.
Islamonazism is a supremacist ideology as German Nazism and Japanese Shintoism were. And the savage excesses they exercise to achieve their goals are shockingly similar.
They want strict Islamic law, or sharia, in Muslim countries and to “unify all Islamic countries into a single state, or Caliphate.”
... a closer look at attitudes in Egypt and Pakistan, two of the countries surveyed, reveals a more nuanced perspective that also welcomes democracy and freedom of religion.
Freedom and democracy are incompatible with sharia.
I just got back tonight from Dr. John Lewis’ lecture on state-sponsered Islamic-Totalitarianism at George Mason University. There must’ve been at least thirty five police officers providing security. Needless to say an entire mob mentality broke out as “demonstrators” in the audience disrupted the entire event. Muslim student groups and their marxist dhimmi friends hurled invectives, howled, and spat as if in a possessed frenzy. The professor and his supporters, much to their credit, behaved with complete restraint and respect for different viewpoints during the Q&A session. The same absolutely cannot be said of his opponents. So much for tolerance and diversity. Their attempts to disrupt and shut down the talk was a disrespectful, uncivilized display of hate that only supported the argument that you cannot reason with or appease this kind of enemy.
yeah try to have that “discussion” in caliphate athmosphere
The SFC, IndianMuslims and Detroit Free Press twist Poll to more anti-American in stance:
Poll: Muslims distrust U.S.
Majority in 4 nations surveyed don’t think al Qaeda was behind 9/11, say America wants to undermine Islam
Matthew B. Stannard, Amr Emam, Chronicle Staff Writers
On Sept. 11, 2001, Dr. Khalil Fadel, a political psychology expert from Egypt, was watching coverage of the attack on New York when one of his patients came running into his clinic.
“I’m so happy,” the joyous patient cried to the shocked Fadel. “If the Americans decide to invade Afghanistan, I will go there to fight against them.”
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/25/MNGRQPEQJM1.DTL
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Poll finds Muslims believe US seeking to divide Islamic world
Posted April 25th, 2007 by TariqueMuslim World-Indian Muslims
NewsWashington, April 25 (NNN-KUNA) A recent poll conducted in four major Islamic countries found that the majority of Muslims believe the United States is seeking to undermine Islam.
The poll, taken by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a non-profit organisation, from Dec 9, 2006 to Feb 15, 2007 and released on Tuesday, showed more than 70 per cent of Egyptians, Moroccans, Pakistanis and Indonesians are of the belief that the primary goal of the US-led “war on terrorism” is to “weaken and divide the Islamic religion and its people.”
“While US leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people in the Islamic world clearly perceive the US as being at war with Islam,” Steven Kull, principal investigator of the survey project and editor of World Public Opinion, said in a statement.
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Detroit Free Press Freep.com—U.S. targeting Islam, many in poll say
Many also doubt Al Qaeda is to blame for 9/11
April 25, 2007
BY JUDY MATHEWSON
BLOOMBERG NEWS
WASHINGTON — Majorities in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia say undermining Islam is a likely goal of U.S. foreign policy and many are unconvinced that Al Qaeda committed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a poll released Tuesday in Washington.
The survey by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes questioned 1,000 or more people in each country. A majority of those surveyed in Morocco and in Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population of any country, said it is a goal of the U.S. war on terror to “spread Christianity” in the Middle East.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/NEWS07/704250436/1001/NEWS
Same story. Category: Media Bias
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