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This seems like a solid enough news hook to revisit a theme I addressed shortly after the Paris attacks, when the Obama administration’s ‘radical-Islamist-violence-has-nothing-to-do-with-Islam’ rhetoric was in full throat. Via The Telegraph: One in four British Muslims sympathise with terrorists behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks, a new poll shows. A poll reveals how a significant minority of Muslims endorse terrorist atrocities against those who mock the Prophet Mohammed. Some 27 per cent of British Muslims said they have “some sympathy for the motives behind the attacks” on the Paris magazine, according to polling by ComRes for the BBC. A...

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said. All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain. In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins. More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe...

FONT SIZE=4>IRAQ A TALE OF TWO POLLS ONE SAYS WE'RE DOING OKTHE OTHER SAYS WE'RE LOOSING BAD Once upon a time there were two polls Guess which one our MSM will pick ? by L.J.Keslin Will it be the poll that shows Iraqis are feeling that the "surge" is doing its job or will it be the one that shows the "surge" is failing ?    As Pierre de Paillasson an intern from Paris's communist paper Il Hunanitie advising the selection at a major MSM TV outlet observed in his best broken english" Ah but ov course eets de leettle poll one...

No one noticed as Turkey, an erstwhile ally, nabbed the gold medal recently in the global anti-American stakes. Mercifully, half the 22,000 people surveyed in 21 countries by the BBC around the world did not agree, "America's influence on the world is very negative."http://www.washtimes.com