Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Pew Survey Alarming or Not?

Filed under: U.S. News by Chad at 1:19 pm UTC

A Pew Research poll displays a few alarming trends.  Sure the number of American Muslims who support suicide bombing is concerning, but the numbers pertaining to how American Muslims view the war in Afghanistan is downright shocking.

Foreign-born American Muslims are split on whether the war in Afghanistan was right or wrong at 40 percent.  That’s to be expected since the respondents in that series were not born in this nation, therefore skewed from the rest of society.

But wait.  Native-born American Muslims believe the war in Afghanistan is wrong 65-26.  How could this be?  I suppose it’s not too much of a stretch seeing as how 29 percent of all Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is wrong, or in plain English 29 percent of Americans should never have the right to vote again because they are incapable of reason.

Another interesting poll result comes via LGF.  The number of American Muslims sits at or around 2.35 million, which is five to eight million below the number cited by CAIR every time they try to inflate such figures to make their group more relevant.  It is also consistent with previous figures.  The figure, once again, also challenges the ridiculous notion that Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion that we all hear every time a debate turns beyond the absurd.

Overall though, there doesn’t appear to be anything to be concerned about, or at least overwhelmingly so.  The majority of American Muslims reject Islamism, which was known prior to, but there are pockets that do accept the doctrine.  The American Muslims that reject it need to fully understand it’s those who accept the doctrine that the nation needs to find with their help, but that’s where the survey shows a disconnect if you will.  Even amongst those who reject Islamism and consider theirselves to be more integrated into the U.S., they still fall in line with many of the Islamists’ conspiracy theories gladly pushed by nutters and are less inclined to help the U.S. government against Islamists.

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