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[PEW's Muslim researcher:] "views of Islam are more negative now than they were six months after the [911] attacks"
On X ^ | Sep 3, 2026

Posted on 09/06/2026 7:50:49 AM PDT by Milagros

Besheer Mohamed @bmoham Sep 3

I wrote a data essay on Muslim Americans 25 years after 9/11 – American Muslims have grown in numbers and political visibility, but views of Islam are more negative now than they were six months after the attacks, and far more partisan


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1 posted on 09/06/2026 7:50:49 AM PDT by Milagros
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2 posted on 09/06/2026 7:52:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Milagros

It’s time to start deporting the Nazi Muzzies. They are not Americans and never will be. They hate America and are only here to drain our treasuries. Bass turds. Allah my arse.


3 posted on 09/06/2026 7:53:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Socialism is the same clown show that gave us out of control global illegal immigration.)
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To: Milagros
After 9/11, it was commonly believed that terrorism was the work of Muslim extremists.

In the intervening years (especially after 10/7), it's become clear it's just the work of Muslims in general.

4 posted on 09/06/2026 7:55:08 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Milagros

It’s cuz we got to know them better


5 posted on 09/06/2026 7:55:36 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Milagros

The men of al-Zutt showed violence towards Mohammed


6 posted on 09/06/2026 7:55:49 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I am repeating this because it is important.

Islam this all hangs together.
Do we have the courage to do the awful hard things?
JAMES MITCHELL: No. Eh, here’s what Americans I think don’t know. When they kill people, it’s an act of worship. One of the things that became clear to me when I was talking with these guys is that one way they show their love for Allah and one way they show how powerful Allah is, is by slaughtering people who are helpless to prevent it. So when they, you know, they cut the throat of a Yazidis sex slave and she bleeds out in a bowel, that’s actually an act of worship. It’s not an act of aggression.
You know, when they crucify children or burn people in cages or in KSM’s case when he decapitated Daniel Pearl and then dismembered his [Mark: right] cut his arms and legs off and stacked him a hole, that was not a, an, act of anger. It was an act of love for his god and he feels as though he shows his god how powerful his god is by how helpless innocent people are to prevent their destruction.

JAMES MITCHELL: Well we assume it’s important for them to like us. [Mark: Yeah] And that, and that if they, if they only liked us, if they only understood that we want to live in peace with them, then everything would be okay, but it’s actually the opposite. What KSM told me was that our judicial system, our Bill of Rights, our civil liberties, our desire to have other people in the world like us were all weapons that Allah had placed in our minds so that we could be defeated by the Islamists who were the true, had the true dominion of the world.

MARK STEYN: But, let me bring it back to you personally. When I visited Gitmo, the guys running the joint said one of the problems they’d had there was that the very eminent legal representation that the detainees have...there was a concerted effort to identify people working at the camp and actually find out their names and intimidate their family members and all the rest of it. And, and the one guard told me he said the biggest chill was when one of the prisoners looked at him and said he knew his wife and children’s names
You were exposed to that. The lawyers for these guys—
JAMES MITCHELL: They put it in their privilege bag [Mark: Yeah] so they couldn’t be searched [Mark: Yeah] and they smuggled the photos of me and several other people who were not even part of the interrogation program. [Mark: Right] But some people who are, who were, who were still undercover smuggled those things in to Guantanamo, gave them to KSM, gave them to – well, they showed them to all of those folks. [Mark: Right] And that case has not been completely resolved. You know it was just recently turned over to some small investigative outfit associated with the Navy. Uh, [Mark: Right] and that case has not been resolved.
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There is a battle between good and evil being waged and the evidence of that is clearly seen in the daily news reports. Pick up a New York newspaper and you will read reports of innocent people being pushed in front of subway trains or stabbed for absolutely no reason. The cover of yesterday’s New York Post is about a woman shot dead by the NYPD after she stabbed two strangers in Times Square, killing one.
The film Nefarious is basically about a demon explaining how the Devil works on seducing humans into evil by bribing them with whatever we desire. He also explains that demons hate humans because God loves us. and what his plan is for the human race.


7 posted on 09/06/2026 7:57:31 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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Some reputations are earned.


8 posted on 09/06/2026 7:57:46 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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The Muslim politicians in the US who have all the notoriety are not doing Muslims any favors by crapping on the country they now serve. Let them keep talking about socialism, stealing from Americans, defrauding their own constituents, etc. ……setting a great example.


9 posted on 09/06/2026 8:00:42 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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Pew-Pew!............


10 posted on 09/06/2026 8:02:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Milagros

More negative? No, more realistic.


11 posted on 09/06/2026 8:04:18 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: pierrem15

You’re right. 9/11 was the work of an organized group of Muslims. They carefully planned the whole thing out.

Now consider individual Muslims who just decide one day to grab a knife and attack random people on the street. Or just decide to drive a vehicle into a crowd.

So, yeah. The problem is Islam in general.


12 posted on 09/06/2026 8:09:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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So, more people think that the ‘religion’ of hate, rape, misogyny, lying, murder, and sharia sucks?

Who’da thought.

Nope, not all Muslims are violent, but I don’t hear them trying to change their religion rules. Let us remember that the Catholics were just as intolerant of those who were of different religions centuries ago, and they managed to change. It’s long past time that we (and the rest of the western world) say “Change, or get your asses outa our civilized countries.”

Who’da thought?


13 posted on 09/06/2026 8:12:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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It is amazing what clueless morons democommies are.


14 posted on 09/06/2026 8:18:46 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Milagros

Not good enough. We have a lot of work to do.


15 posted on 09/06/2026 8:19:37 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: pierrem15

Permit me to add one thing to my post #12.

I suggest a little experiment for anyone who disagrees with you.

Draw a picture gently mocking Jesus. Then hold it while standing on a corner in a Christian neighborhood. Perhaps right outside Vatican City.

Later, draw a picture gently mocking Mohammed. Then hold it while standing on a corner in a Muslim neighborhood. Perhaps in a Muslim part of London.

See how the average person responds in each case.


16 posted on 09/06/2026 8:20:02 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Sure...Just look at Detroit and NYC...if you don’t see it...you’re blind...these people hate Americans.


17 posted on 09/06/2026 8:22:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Milagros

Familiarity breeds contempt.


18 posted on 09/06/2026 8:24:30 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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We now have experience and knowledge to know the terrorists in 9/11 are just typical muslims, not the outliers like we were told.


19 posted on 09/06/2026 8:25:50 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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Probably because our government spent 6 months publicly rehabbing Islam after the world trade center terrorist attack.


20 posted on 09/06/2026 8:36:08 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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