Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Ain't Diversity Grand?

and it enriches us as Brenda Walker lets us know:

An alarming 26% — or roughly 100,000 of younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings against non-Muslim “civilian targets” are cool. That’s really not any more comforting than the 35% of young Muslim Brits who told Pew the same thing after some of them bombed the London subway, killing 52 civilians and wounding another 700 or so.

A few points:

  • Of Muslims residing in America, 65 percent are foreign born (page 1 of the downloadable PDF report).
  • Only 28 percent consider themselves Americans first; 47 percent have their primary identity in being Muslim (pg 31).
  • Among those who identify as Muslims first, 13 percent believe suicide bombing is justified to protect Islam from infidels (page 32).
  • Also among the Muslim-first set, only 28 percent believe that a “group of Arabs” carried out the 9/11 attacks, while 40 percent did not accept the 9/11 perpetrators were Arabs and 32 percent declined to answer or said they didn’t know (pg 32).
  • In terms of political philosophy, 70 percent of Muslims residing in America prefer big government, and only 11 percent are or lean Republican (pg 41).

Strangely enough Neocons still think we can invite the world, fight the world. Personally I feel soooo much better with a more 'diverse' population - knowing for example there are 100,000+ young muslims walking around who think its okay for someone to walk into Grand Central Station at rush hour with a pack of explosives and blow themselves up.

Much as MSM tries to spin it:
Mostly moderate, not monolithic
Los Angeles Times - 14 hours ago
Poll finds an assimilated community, yet younger Muslims are more likely to see grounds for suicide bombings. By Rebecca Trounson, Times Staff Writer.

as much as MSM tries to spin this, they stumble....YOUNGER - in other words Muslims who should be MORE assimilated are more likely to support terrorism.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey, there is a broken link in this article, under the anchor text - downloadable PDF report Here is the working link so you can replace it - https://selectra.co.uk/sites/selectra.co.uk/files/pdf/pew-muslim-americans.pdf