Posted on 11/01/2012 2:30:03 PM PDT by NYer
And 40% think that Muslims here should not be governed by the Constitution, but by Sharia. Does this really surprise anyone? Why should Muslims in the U.S. hold different beliefs from Muslims elsewhere?
"Guess who U.S. Muslims are voting for," by Bob Unruh for WND, October 31:
Nearly half of 600 Muslim-American citizens polled who plan to vote in the 2012 presidential election believe parodies of Muhammad should be prosecuted criminally in the U.S., and one in eight say the offense is so serious violators should face the death penalty.
The results came in a groundbreaking scientific poll for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. It was taken Oct. 22-26 and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.98 percentage points.
The poll also found 40 percent of Muslims in America believe they should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Shariah standards.
And the big winner among Muslim-Americans in the presidential election is Barack Obama, the poll found. More than 72 percent said they are definitely supporting Obama, and another 8.5 percent are leaning that direction. Only 11 percent are for Romney....
“Almost half of those Muslims surveyed – an astonishing 46 percent – said they believe those Americans who offer criticism or parodies of Islam should face criminal charges,” said pollster Fritz Wenzel in an analysis of the survey’s results.
“Even more shocking: One in eight respondents said they think those Americans who criticize or parody Islam should face the death penalty, while another nine percent said they were unsure on the question,” he said.
Wenzel said even the 9 percent “undecided” on that particular question is alarming.
“Seldom in survey research does a response of ‘not sure’ carry such significance, but the response to this question certainly is a surprise, given the severity of the question, and offers insight into the conflict that some Muslims appear to face in making the ideals under-girding American society fit into their religious lifestyle,” he said.
Wenzel’s poll said 7.2 percent of the respondents said they “strongly agree” with the idea of execution for those who parody Islam, and another 4.3 percent said they somewhat agree.
While 80 percent said that they somewhat or strongly disagree with the idea, when those who said they were not sure are added, one in five Muslims across America cannot say they believe Christians or others who criticize Muhammad should be spared the death penalty.
More Muslim women (10.4 percent) than Muslim men (4.9 percent) said they strongly agree with the idea, while 12.4 percent of the women and 7.1 percent of the men were uncertain about the issue involving Muhammad.
Four in 10 said Muslims in America should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Islamic Shariah law.
“A much smaller percentage said they think the U.S. should establish an entirely separate court system to adjudicate matters involving Muslims,” Wenzel said.
While the respondents overwhelmingly lean toward the Democratic Party and like the direction Barack Obama, who repeatedly has praised Islam around the world, is leading this nation, they also have a fundamental conflict with American life, expressing objections to the freedom of speech and religion guaranteed in the Constitution.
American Muslims, Wenzel said, “show signs of ambivalence toward the U.S. Constitution generally and the First Amendment specifically.”
“These survey findings show a community in conflict with the foundations of our nation, as many Muslims favor and enjoy the freedoms offered by the U.S. Constitution, including participation in elections here, but at the same time significant percentages want to be treated differently than the average non-Muslim when it comes to legal matters,” he said.
“While 39 percent of Muslims said they believe existing U.S. courts should consult Shariah law when adjudicating cases involving Muslims, a plurality of 45 percent said they do not agree with this idea. Asked if the U.S. should establish separate courts based solely on Shariah law to adjudicate cases involving Muslim, 21 percent said it should. Two-thirds of respondents – 66 percent – said that separate courts are not necessary to adjudicate Muslims.”
While 9 of 10 of the Muslim respondents said they agree with the First Amendment, they are also in conflict with it, Wenzel said, citing evidence in answers to “another question in the survey which found that one-third of Muslims – 32 percent – believe Shariah should be the supreme law of the land in the United States,” Wenzel said.
“Another shocking finding from the survey is how Muslims view the religious freedoms of Christians. Asked whether U.S. citizens who are Christians have the right to evangelize Muslims to consider other faiths, just 30 percent agreed Christians have such a right. Another 42 percent said they do not have such a right, while 28 percent said they were unsure on the question.”
One in five say Muslim men should be allowed to follow their religion in America and have more than one wife, and 58 percent said criticism of their religion or of Muhammad should not be allowed under the Constitution.
While 43 percent said they disagreed with the idea of Christians evangelizing Muslims, another 27 percent said they were undecided. Only 19 percent said they “strongly agree” with the idea that Americans have a right to invite Muslims to consider another faith.
Nearly one in three said Israel either has no right to exist or they were uncertain whether it does.
Robert Spencer, author of “Stealth Jihad” and “Did Muhammad Ever Exist?,” told WND the survey is a “disquieting indication that Muslims in the U.S. support Shariah blasphemy laws and want to bring them to the U.S.”
“This should not surprise anyone,” he said. “There is no reason to believe that Muslims in the U.S. believe in a different form of Islam from that which prevails everywhere else. But it underscores the need for Americans to defend, forthrightly and without apology, the freedom of speech, as it is increasingly embattled today, and to revive and enact anti-Shariah laws nationwide.”
Spencer has authored 12 books on Islam and has led seminars about jihad for the United States Central Command, United States Army Command, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force and others.
Pamela Geller, author of ”Stop the Islamization of America” and a WND columnist, said: “Restrictions on free speech are part of Shariah. This poll does nothing but show that Muslims in this country adhere to Shariah in large numbers. What is surprising is that the percentage of those who oppose free speech isn’t higher. But probably many of the respondents already know better than to say what they really think to non-Muslim pollsters.”...
Probably the same Somolians being bussed in to vote dem in Ohio.
Excellent response! I've have more than enough islam already and I just don't see the appeal.
They apparently hate all the best stuff: God, women, dogs, bacon, freedom, liberty, etc...nope, I just don't get it, don't want it and will fight against it.
"What we have here......is a failure to acculturate."
The U.S. should pass a law to criminalize Islam.
The “nation” of Islam should be declared the world’s number one enemy.
And I believe ALL practicing Muslims should be expelled from the United States.
But the socialist Dem’s have been building this demographic super electorate for 50 years through immigration and government dependency, and it looks like they will soon have their permanent majority.
Short of reshaping our society through Christian revival, does anyone see a way out?
How about they all go back where they came from instead of coming here and spreading hate and Christophobia and Judeophobia.
This is why Americans MUST exercise our free speech, while we still have it.
46% of Muslims in the U.S. think criticism of Islam should be criminalizedAnd you know what the Muslims think the penalty should be... throw acid in the face, chop-off the hands, set on fire, catapult into the desert and then shoot the nearest little girl in the head.
But it is still okay to blaspheme Christ and to persecute Christians????
That from the ideology of death and destruction cleverly disguised as a religion.
” 46% of non-Muslims think Islam should be criminalized. “
More like 86%
“99% of Native US citizens think mohammedites should return to where they came from.”
No, not the 47% for Obama.
Looks like we have what you call your irreconcilable differences.
As I have said before, Islam is not consistent with our Constitution or our culture. Unlike ALL other major religions, Islam is inherently seditious and a threat to our Constitution. Therefore, it should not receive protections under freedom of religion.
No other organized body of people posing a threat to our Constitution has been permitted exist in our country. Vastly smaller paramilitary or separatist groups have been routinely squashed out of existence. Islam, which poses an infinitely greater threat, should be treated no differently.
Muslims who are US citizens should be asked to sign oaths of allegience to the US and our Constitution and, upon discovery of open support for Shariah law, support (financial or otherwise) for radical Islam causes or groups, or participation in anti-US demonstrations or rallies, should be stripped of their citizenship and deported, or, depending on the circumstances, punished as if they had committed treason. Practicing Muslims should NOT be allowed to immigrate into the US, only out of the US.. This issue is just that serious. Ignoring it is NOT an option
This is my new "Meme". I just invented it. Whenever I give the "Thumbs up" I am making fun of and ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. Whenever anybody in the world does this they are making fun of the Prophet Muhammed.
I care about what they think. I care so much that I want to see them deported.
I wave at all you Muslims...with my left hand!
I lift my feet and proudly display the bottom to all you Muslims!
I do not recognize Muhammed as any deity!
I do not accept nor believe Sharia law has any more validity than the contents of a septic tank!
I do not recognize Islam/Muslim as a socially acceptable members of OUR society!
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