Posted on 07/24/2007 8:05:27 PM PDT by nuconvert
Survey: Muslims Around World Rejecting Islamic Extremism
July 24, 2007
Muslims around the world increasingly reject suicide bombings and other violence against civilians, according to a new international poll dealing with how the world's population judges their lives, countries and national institutions.
A wide ranging survey of international attitudes in 47 countries by the Pew Research Center also reported that in many of the countries where support for suicide attacks has declined, there has also has been decreasing support for Al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden.
The 95-page survey found that surging economic growth in many developing countries has encouraged people in these countries to express satisfaction with their personal lives, family income and national conditions, said Andrew Kohut, the center's director.
"It's a pro-globalization set of findings," Kohut said.
Most notably, the survey finds large and growing number of Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere rejecting Islamic extremism. Ten mainly Muslim countries were surveyed along with the Palestinian territories, as well as five African nations with large Muslim populations.
For example, the percentage of Jordanian Muslims who have confidence in bin Laden as a world leader fell 36 percentage points to 20 percent since 2003 while the proportion who say suicide bombing is sometimes or always justified dropped 20 percent points to 23 percent. Other countries where support for bin Laden declined are Lebanon, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan and Kuwait.
The report said support for such bombings and terror tactics has dropped since 2002 in seven of the eight countries where data were available. In Lebanon, the proportion of Muslims who say suicide attacks are often or sometimes justified fell to 34 percent from 79 percent while just 9 percent of Pakistanis believe suicide bombings can be justified often or sometimes, down from 33 percent in 2002 and a
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Riiiiiiight.
I really want to believe it but results will be the only real evidence.
Was Saudi Arabia included in this poll?
Could be Darwin at work.... many extremists went and got themselves dead in the last few years...
You mean intelligent design. :P
don’t know
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Total Bullcrap.
Good news bump
If it is true -— IT IS ABOUT TIME!!!
Then I guess we can expect this moderate majority to start speaking out, and in some instances battling, against their extremist cousins? Look for it to start sometime tomorrow afternoon.
Increasingly suicide bombers are targeting...muslims.
As long as only infidels were suffering, suicide bombs were OK.
Now that muslims are being killed...its wrong.
In other news: “Democrats are deeply saddened”
I thought Bush’s wars were creating more terrorists...it looks instead like it is going in the other direction.
Al-Taqiyaa in action.
Their religion permits them to lie when it serves to advance the cause of the jihad.
I don’t believe the results of this poll for a minute.
No unintelligent demise!
gosh,
isn’t that comforting
to know?
/s
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