Posted on 12/06/2010 3:31:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Reporting from Beirut — A majority of Muslims around the world welcome a significant role for Islam in their countries' political life, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, but have mixed feelings toward militant religious groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
According to the survey, majorities in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Nigeria would favor changing current laws to allow stoning as a punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft and death for those who convert from Islam to another religion. About 85% of Pakistani Muslims said they would support a law segregating men and women in the workplace.
Muslims in Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria and Jordan were among the most enthusiastic, with more than three-quarters of poll respondents in those countries reporting positive views of Islam's influence in politics: either that Islam had a large role in politics, and that was a good thing, or that it played a small role, and that was bad.
Turkish Muslims were the most conflicted, with just more than half reporting positive views of Islam's influence in politics. Turkey has struggled in recent years to balance a secular political system with an increasingly fervent Muslim population.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
“They hate the West.
Why are they here ?”
Because liberals, who loathe and hate the West, see the Islamists as a means to an end. If the Islamists can tear down the capitalist West then the liberals think that will open the door to socialism-communism. That their logic is on par with Charles Manson’s escapes them.
Duh!
Just exactly what does this stupid pollster think is written in the Qur'an?
The almost-half were not conflicted at all. If only ten percent of Turkey’s citizens (and this includes a good many non-Turks) were Islamofascist, it would still be reported as “conflicted”.
To kill us..
Thank you for your informed take. FRegards ...
My pleasure! And thanks for the kind remark!
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