Posted on 04/07/2008 9:00:31 AM PDT by Aristotelian
LONDON (Reuters) - In the years since the September 11 attacks on the United States, much has been said about the Muslim world, but little, it is argued, has been gathered on what Muslims truly think of the West.
Now Gallup, the global polling group, has conducted research in 35 Muslim countries, interviewing more than 50,000 people over a six-year period, to come up with what it is calling the first comprehensive survey of Muslim world opinion.
The results, published in a book called "Who Speaks for Islam? What a billion Muslims really think", provide often surprising clues as to how Muslims perceive the West and how misunderstanding on both sides -- often perpetuated by politicians and the media -- can fuel suspicion and conflict.
"The conflict between Muslims and Western communities is far from inevitable," co-author Dalia Mogahed said on Monday, laying out one of the fundamental conclusions she and John Esposito, a professor at Georgetown University, drew from the reams of data.
"It is more about policy than principles...
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The U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, where it is closely backed by Britain, have done much to color the perception of the two in the Muslim world, where they are widely regarded "unfavorably" and described as "aggressive".
Yet both Britain and the United States are at the same time held up by many Muslims as the best representatives of what is most admired about the West -- the freedom of its citizens.
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Whitewash.
what “Muslims think” is an oxymoron.
not f#$@ing much.
Lemme guess — hmmm — Israel sucks, Israel should disappear, Israel is the biggest insult, Israel is their main concern, Israel must go, Israel is at the center of all their problems. Oh yeah, and America supports Israel, and therefore must also die.
Other than that, not much.
I remember seeing something about America’s popularity before 9/11 being something like 66% and after 9/11 but before the Iraq invasion being 76%.
False. They do not admire our freedom of speech. They appeal to the United Nations to outlaw blasphemy against Islam.
They admire how we permit the muslim supremacist ideology of Islam to be funded in the West by the Islam-only state of Saudi Arabia. The reciprocal would not be tolerated at home.
Meanwhile muslim nations all use the same colored flags and all bow to the Islamic capital 5 times a day every day. So the Islamic empire IS monolithic.
While admiring Western values, many Muslims feel they are not respected by the West and that the values the West espouses, such as democracy, are only given lip service when it comes to applying them in the Muslim world.A recent example was the 2006 election in the Palestinian territories, which the Islamist movement Hamas won in a free and fair poll. The United States and Israel have since done much to ignore the result and try to push Hamas out of office.
Hamas is a terrorist organization and to seat them in elected office makes them a terrorist state. If muslims "denounce" terrorists they wouldn't seat them in majority power.
I want to know why they didn’t ask Muslims what Muslims could do to improve their popularity with the West. Then again, I already know the answer to that question.
“Kill the infidel!” is what a majority think.
Muslims are equals in America. The converse is not true in muslim nations where the law distinguished between muslim and kufir. Non-muslims have fewer rights and protections under the law in muslim nations. Even natives who convert away from Islam are discriminated against at home so it is purely religious bigotry on the part of muslims.
If they want respect around the world, they must first show tolerance for others at home.
Sorry. Ain't gonna happen. Muslims are inferior. When they clean up their own frickin' messes then maybe I'll reconsider.
And how was Judaism treated on muslim tv? There are Jews in the US too, and atheists, and Scientologists, and wiccan, and pagans, and Buddhists, and Hindus, et al.
One of which is known as one of the biggest Islamic appologists (read liar) around.
Whitewash? Absolutely.
If anyone wants to know what Muslims "think", they should go to memri.com and read some of the Friday sermons the sheiks are preaching. THAT is what they are instructed to think. Like the borg on star trek, Muslims aren't allowed independent thought, and the reasoning centers of their brains were destroy long ago at the onset of their Islamic programming.
Mogahed said media-content analysis showed the majority of U.S. TV news coverage was "sharply negative" of Islam, whereas when Christianity was discussed on Muslim TV stations, the coverage was flat -- neither good nor bad.Yeah. Unbiased survey.
(Did anyone do a similar survey of Nazis in 1944?)
ML/NJ
Ok, this is an easy one.
Muslim = good
Non-Muslim = bad
When do I get my check?
If the ____________ would clean their own religion out and reform it, the rest of the world wouldn’t have to become their baby sitters and police.
Grunt. Breed with cousin.
Grunt. Food.
Grunt grunt. Kill.
Grunt grunt. Mutilate wives.
Al Queda was never more popular in the Arab world than right after 9-11.
When we dragged Saddam Hussein out of a hole in the ground they were much less popular.
When Osama Bin Laden thought that the USA was too involved in the Middle East, and his supporters agreed, his ‘remedy’ of killing 3,000 of our civilians and bringing down the WTC did not yield the desired result of us being less involved in the Middle East.......DUH! Did they think we were Europe?
Al Queda was never more popular in the Arab world than right after 9-11.
When we dragged Saddam Hussein out of a hole in the ground they were much less popular.
When Osama Bin Laden thought that the USA was too involved in the Middle East, and his supporters agreed, his ‘remedy’ of killing 3,000 of our civilians and bringing down the WTC did not yield the desired result of us being less involved in the Middle East.......DUH! Did they think we were Europe?
The only reform is for muslims to reject the rantings of a long dead warlord who proclaimed himself the Last Prophet.
As “the last” it would be heresey to Islam to change the teachings of Islam.
They can however reject Mohammed’s rewritten text of the Bible for the real deal. Excpet that muslims are prohibited from leaving the death cult even to “remain” people of the book as Jews or Christians.
The death penalty and discrimination that muslims face in this regard (converting away from the faith) is the only reform that can be established in so called “muslim lands” (that followed other faiths before their were conquered).
Sometimes an Islamic apologist will try explain that a "bad" sura is replaced with a better one, hoping that the infidel is too stupid to realize the Koran is not written in the order it was revealed to Mohammad and in context with what was going on in is life at the time, and the related hadith that further clarifies what the meaning of that koranic sura is.
Anything "good" in the koran is abrogated by all the hate that is contained in the 9th sura. which is the last.
If people think you are joking, they only need look at Ask The Imam where the Imam in residence will insist that it is wrong to question the wisdom of Mohammed even when some rules and teachings seem odd or contradictory or cruel.
John Esposito writes many books that Muslims approve of, and is president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America
That isn't the reasoning behind their flying planes into the trade center. Reason One, was that It was a signal to the western world that the final battle has begun. Reason two, was that they hoped it would cripple our economy by striking what they thought was the nerve center of the entire financial and insurance sector. (they would have been more successful if they hit the trade center in Chicago) Reason three, it fit with a bible passage that they hoped would make Christians shake in their boots. Little did they know that most "Christians" in the USA these days don't, and never have read the bible. (it imitates a sign that signals the last days are approaching; Ironically, for us that means THEY are the solders of the anti-Christ gathering in the east)
Christians already know and don't care!!
(Side note - Muslims THINK??!! Who knew???)
That should be better
When a church or synagogue opens up in Mecca only then will I begin to care what muslims think of me and my country.
Polls are hard enough to believe, but a poll of Muslims over 6 years? Useless!
Not interested. Everything I need to know about islam I learned on 9/11.
Amen Brother! Then and only then will I believe in this nonsence about the rop! Until then, stfu all mooselips!
Try < strike out >
Kill, kill, kill, kill and kill!
America is still mostly Christian.
ML/NJ
Shouldn’t take long...
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