Posted on 08/16/2010 5:55:43 AM PDT by Palter
Popular antipathy to a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero is so fierce that even President Barack Obama, the nation's Islamophile-in-chief, "clarified" his August 11 statement supporting the plan to say, "I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there." It is not just a mosque, of which there are two in the neighborhood, but a symbol of Islamic presence. The most recent CNN poll shows an overwhelming 70%-29% margin of opposition.
When liberal politicians - like the president and New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg - defend the plan, what they mean is, "We want a big Islamic statement near Ground Zero as a gesture of outreach to the Muslim world." When the political right denounces it, they mean, "Muslim conquerors always build a mosque atop the ruins of the places they conquer, and we're not going to give the rascals the satisfaction." That was predictable.
What is surprising is how passionately Americans oppose the Ground Zero mosque. A revolt is brewing against America's liberal political elite.
It is hard to find consistent polling data about American attitudes towards Islam. The largest polling organizations, Pew and Gallup, draw funding from organizations with a vested interest in promoting a benign view of Islam. Nonetheless, the results are striking: in a Gallup inquiry [1] published in January 2010, Americans had an "unfavorable" view of Islam by a margin of 53%-42%, with 31% holding a strongly negative view. That contrasts with 15% for Judaism and 4% for Christianity.
Similar results emerge from polls of respective support for Israel and the Palestinians.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Maybe I’m just overly sensitive but the honor killings & genital mutilation offend me.
Tho a lot of American doctors are willing to appease on the genital butchery:
http://joytiz.com/2010/profile-in-courage-aap-rejects-genital-mutliation/
And don’t forget the Hadith. Interesting reading, that is.
I wonder why that question wasn't posed...?
Why don’t american’s like muslims?
pretty much the same reason that jews don’t like nazis
Can you imagine FDR promoting a shrine to Hirohito near the Washington Monument in the middle of WW2. I like to try to think logically about Obam. The only way his actions make sense to me is that he is a ‘Liberal’ Muslim.
One whose mother I would support exercising "choice."
Fixed.
Please let that be the case. We'll know after the night of 2 November.
I’d say the author already has enough. He does a good job of addressing the causes in his article.
The fact that 47% of Americans have a Somewhat Favorable or better attitude towards Islam is proof that an awful lot of folks are not paying attention.
Interesting article. I think the author articulates the reasons for the discomfort many Americans feel very well.
Cuz Moslems abuse women and childern and hate femininity and love to kill Americans....other than that they’re OK.
And just to make the record clear, muslims WERE dancing in the streets that morning:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.asp
Excellent points.
About the women and their clothes, and I don’t really know if this is a muslim thing or some other religion, but I have noticed young women who wear a scarf looking thing on their head, all wrapped around, but also have on skin tight shirts and jeans. If it’s all about modesty, why the tight fitting clothes?
That way the people who don't like Islam look like the bad guys.
We will have a FRiendly disagreement. There are no Liberal muslims. In this country we have Islam half-faithfuls, but it is for show, only.
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