Posted on 05/23/2007 4:01:44 AM PDT by theothercheek
In the first-ever, nationwide survey of Muslim Americans, the Pew Research Center suggests that 26 percent of the 2.35 million Muslims in the U.S. believe there are circumstances in which suicide bombings are acceptable.
Nearly half (47 percent) think of themselves as Muslim first, American second. Among those under the age of 30, 13 percent believe suicide bombings to defend their religion are sometimes justified; 11 percent say this tactic is rarely justified; two percent say it can often be justified.
The Pew Research Center interviewed 1,050 randomly selected Muslim American adults aged 18 and older, from Jan. 24 through April 30, 2007. Half identified themselves as Sunni, 16 percent as Shiite. Sixty-five percent were foreign-born, 35 percent were born in the U.S.A. (three out of five of these are converts to Islam).
So how did the MSM report the shocking and frightening fact that there could be as many as 610,000 people living among us - the population of Charlotte, NC - who can justify terrorism against American civilians under certain circumstances?
A scan of the headlines shows that some played it straight, some downplayed the ramifications of the survey and some – bizarrely – chose to ignore the threat of homegrown terrorism altogether and focus instead on how "happy" and "assimilated" U.S. Muslims are (note the National Public Radio and Voice of America headlines; your tax dollars at work):
† CBS News (NY): Poll: 26% Of Young US Muslims OK Bombs
† CBS 42 (TX): Poll: One In Four US Muslims OK Suicide Bombs
† KTVO (MO): Some young US Muslims OK with suicide attacks
† Lone Star Times (TX): What about the enemy within?
† Los Angeles Times: Some younger US Muslims say suicide bombings could be justified
† Reuters: Poll finds some US Muslim support for suicide attacks
Burying The Lede:
† The Associated Press via York (PA) Dispatch: Poll: Most US Muslims critical of extremism, al-Qaida
† KRQE (NM): Poll: Most US Muslims reject extremism
† The Washington Post: : Pew Surveys Muslims in America
† WLBT-TV (MS): Poll: American Muslims reject suicide bombings, but pockets of discontent
† Wyoming News: Most US Muslims Reject Suicide Bombings
Bizarro Land:
† BBC News (UK): Muslims 'well integrated' in US
† CBC (Prince Edward Island, Canada): Muslims in US decidedly American: study
† DetNews.com (MI): Survey: Muslims largely assimilated in US
† The Ledger (FL): American Muslims: Happy to be here
† NPR: Pew Study Sees Muslim Americans Assimilating
† Voice of America: Poll: US Muslims Feel Post-9/11 Backlash Despite Moderate Outlook
† WBIR-TV (TN): STUDY: Some American Muslims discontent
† USA Today: Poll: Muslim Americans overwhelmingly Democratic, but conservative on many issues
And everyone lies to pollsters.
Really, some random person calls you up and asks “are you in favor of suicide bombings?”
OF course you will give them a completely truthful answer....
“Nearly half (47 percent) think of themselves as Muslim first, American second”
Anyone who thinks or refers to themselves as something other than American first is not an American at all. There can be no room in the land of ours for anyone but 100% Americans.
Read the Pew survey; the link is in the article. They were very careful in their methodology and conducted the survey in several languages, including Arabic and Farsi. Plus, if you do not think there is anything wrong with terrorism to defend your religion - and if your religion glorifies this by promising you virgins in paradise - then you will likely answer in the affirmative instead of hiding your true feelings.
I identify myself as an American first, then by my ethnicity. However, my forebears did not come over here on the Mayflower (Ellis Island, legally). Does this mean I am not 100% American?
My solution to the problem is interment for all Muzzies. When it comes down to bottom line, they will choose Allah and the Koran every time.
‘Most US Muslims Reject Suicide Bombings ‘
74% reject it.... phew, that’s comforting. /sarc.
The difference there, is that beign a Christian isn’t contradictory to being an American.
Islam is by nature a control-freak religion, and Allah demands submission- whereas YHWH is the source of freedom, and in fact our rights emanate from Him, and are protected by the Constitution.
remember the movie The Siege?? after 9/11 it disappeared from tv and probably video stores too.
I still would describe myself as an American Christian because the way I can practice my religion here is way different from the way I can practice it elsewhere. On the one hand, I can practice my religion openly without fear of being prosecuted and jailed, as Turkish converts from Islam are. On the other hand, this is a secular soceity so I can choose to practice some or none of the tenets of my faith without fear of having morality police beat me for having a wisp of hair showing from under my headscarf.
And Christianity tells you to love your neighbors. Islam tells you to kill them, if they are infidels.
Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” - Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Yes, I do remember “The Siege”. After all was said and done in that movie, the real enemy turned out to be the US Army. What a load of Hollywood crap that was!
Well, yeah, details details... :)
Yes, but does that mean you place loyalty to a foreign temporal sovereign ahead of your loyalty to the US? Or to an ideology or religion that expressly condones violent conquest of the United States?
The foreign loyalty was the long-time Protestant concern with Roman Catholic immigrants, especially given the Church's open hostility to American classical liberal values at least through the end of the 19th century (think of the encyclical against "liberalism") and the Church's history of violence against its opponents from the Albigensian Crusade up into the 19th century in Spain and Italy.
As for Teddys statement, and I have the photo from San Juan Hill in my office, to deny your loyalty to Jesus or to put your country above the Lord Jesus is insane.
Agreed. America is collectively an agent of the Kingdom of God.
Well Teddy’s forebears are blue bloods. I am “just” a first generation American. I describe myself as an American first because of my love of and loyalty to my country. My ethnicity is a descriptive modifier. If that makes me less of an American than you or than Teddy Roosevelt it’s more your problem than mine.
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