and can't take a little on field BS.
out of the US and Europe.
Posted on 07/12/2006 8:21:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How do Muslims worldwide think?
To find out, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press carried out a large-scale attitudinal survey this spring. Titled “The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other,” it interviewed Muslims in two batches of countries: six of them with long-standing, majority-Muslim populations (Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey) and four of them in Western Europe with new, minority Muslim populations (France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain).
The survey, which also looks at Western views of Muslims, yielded some dismaying but not altogether surprising results. Its themes can be grouped under three rubrics.
A proclivity to conspiracy theories: In not one Muslim population polled does a majority believe that Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The proportions range from a mere 15 percent in Pakistan holding Arabs responsible, to 48 percent among French Muslims. Confirming recent negative trends in Turkey, the number of Turks who point the finger at Arabs has declined from 46 percent in 2002 to 16 percent today. In other words, in every one of these ten Muslim communities, a majority views 9/11 as a hoax perpetrated by the U.S. government, Israel, or some other agency.
Likewise, Muslims are widely prejudiced against Jews, ranging from 28 percent unfavorable ratings among French Muslims to 98 percent in Jordan (which, despite the monarchy’s moderation, has a majority Palestinian population). Further, Muslims in certain countries (especially Egypt and Jordan) see Jews conspiratorially, as being responsible for bad relations between Muslims and Westerners.
Conspiracy theories also pertain to larger topics. Asked, “What is most responsible for Muslim nations’ lack of prosperity?” between 14 percent (in Pakistan) and 43 percent (in Jordan) blame the policies of the U.S. and other Western states, as opposed to indigenous problems, such as a lack of democracy or education, or the presence of corruption or radical Islam.
This conspiracism points to a widespread unwillingness in the umma to deal with realities, preferring the safer bromides of plots, schemes, and intrigues. It also reveals major problems adjusting to modernity.
Support for terrorism: All the Muslim populations polled display a solid majority of support for Osama bin Laden. Asked whether they have confidence in him, Muslims replied positively, ranging between 8 percent (in Turkey) to 72 percent (in Nigeria). Likewise, suicide bombing is popular. Muslims who call it justified range from 13 percent (in Germany) to 69 percent (in Nigeria). These appalling numbers suggest that terrorism by Muslims has deep roots and will remain a danger for years to come.
British and Nigerian Muslims the most alienated: The United Kingdom stands out as a paradoxical country. Non-Muslims there have strikingly more favorable views of Islam and Muslims than elsewhere in the West; for example, only 32 percent of the British sample view Muslims as violent, significantly less their counterparts in France (41 percent), Germany (52 percent) or Spain (60 percent). In the Muhammad cartoon dispute, Britons showed more sympathy for the Muslim outlook than did other Europeans. More broadly, Britons blame Muslims less for the poor state of Western-Muslim relations.
But British Muslims return the favor with the most malign anti-Western attitudes found in Europe. Many more of them regard Westerners as violent, greedy, immoral, and arrogant than do their counterparts in France, Germany, and Spain. In addition, whether asked about their attitudes toward Jews, responsibility for 9/11, or the place of women in Western societies, their views are notably more extreme.
The situation in Britain reflects the “Londonistan” phenomenon, whereby Britons preemptively cringe and Muslims respond to this weakness with aggression.
Nigerian Muslims have generally the most belligerent views on such issues as the state of Western-Muslim relations, the supposed immorality and arrogance of Westerners, and support for bin Laden and suicide terrorism. This extremism results, no doubt, from the violent state of Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria.
Ironically, most Muslim alienation is found in those countries where Muslims are either the most or the least accommodated, suggesting that a middle path is best – where Muslims do not win special privileges, as in the U.K., nor are they in an advanced state of hostility, as in Nigeria.
Overall, the Pew survey sends an undeniable message of crisis from one end to the other of the Muslim world.
Mr. Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum and author of Miniatures (Transaction Publishers).
"I should kill that unbeliever."
someone should do a study of posting-nannies....it would be revealing AND amusing, I am sure....
Or just consider it a link to prior posts on the same column. As you were...
"Turks who point the finger at Arabs has declined from 46 percent in 2002 to 16 percent today. In other words, in every one of these ten Muslim communities, a majority views 9/11 as a hoax perpetrated by the U.S. government, Israel, or some other agency."
I know why Liberals support Muslim causes so ardently...because they are both united brethren in the twisted logic of thought processes.....totally whacked out psycho fruit loops.
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit
suicide. Let's see now. . . . . . . .
NO Jesus
NO Christmas
NO television
NO cheerleaders
NO baseball
NO football
NO hockey
NO golf
NO tailgate parties
NO Wal-Mart
NO Home Depot
NO pork BBQ
NO hot dogs
NO burgers
NO chocolate chip cookies
NO lobster
NO shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks
NO gumbo
NO jambalaya
NO Beer
Rags for clothes and towels for hats.
Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he's sick and there are no doctors.
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower.
More than one wife.
You can't shave
Your wives can't shave.
You can't shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung.
The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times.
Your bride is picked by someone else.
She smells just like your donkey.
But your donkey has a better disposition.
Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!
I mean, really, is there a mystery here?
If you are unsuccessful as Islam is, you must conclude, it is my fault or it is someone else's fault.
Prideful humans will usually conclude it is someone else's fault and continue their ways of failure.
Indeed.
Muslims. Think. Interesting notion, that.
Poll Shows Huge Percentage of Muslims Are Nuts
A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press titled “The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other” indicated that a large portion of Muslims around the world are nuts. The survey interviewed Muslims in two groups of countries: six with longstanding, mainly Muslim populations (Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey) and four in Europe with new, minority Muslim populations (France, Germany, Britain, Spain).
The majority of Muslims polled believe that the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US were carried out by either Jews or mutant X-Men. The proportions range from 85 percent in Pakistan to 52 percent among French Muslims.
Aamir Morrun, a Pakistani respondent is convinced that mutant X-Men are responsible. “These X-Men are very powerful,” Morrun explained. “They can throw cars into the air with just their minds. They could easily have diverted airplanes into buildings. Since destroying the World Trade Center I have seen them destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.”
The majority of Muslims polled said they had confidence in Osama bin Laden. A third of Muslims polled said suicide bomber would be a good career choice. Fida Bashim of Jordan is one of them. “It’s a great choice,” said Bashim. “You get to travel and do important work. In the end you go to paradise and have sex with dozens of virgins. You can’t beat it.”
Oswald Shockey of the Pew Center says “The attitudes expressed by a huge percentage of these Muslims are virtually indistinguishable from the rantings of patients in mental asylums.”
In related news, Islamic Research Academy in Egypt ruled that suicide bombers do NOT qualify for paradise unless their attack kills at least one infidel. “Allah does not reward clumsiness,” said the ruling. “If all a suicide bomber achieves is his own death or that of fellow Muslims, his soul goes straight to Hell.” The ruling is expected to reemphasize the importance of training.
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
If I had more than one wife, I be looking to sign up for the suicide bomber corp.
Or just consider it a link to prior posts on the same column.
yeh.....you could put that one in the amusing column :)
I was not being original - been posted many times.
Just always seems so right. Once day we need to find and give the original author credit.
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253
Survey Mr. Pipes' article was based on. Very informative and enlightening.
As you were, richard cranium...
The short version - they are psychotic, delusional, predatory, pack animal thugs.
That's got to be the funniest thing I've read all week! Thanks
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