Gallup: Muslims don't hate our freedoms.

[DetlefK]

Sorry, so far I only found it on a german site.
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/islamumfrage2.html

In 2001 Gallup started a poll to find out, what muslims think. They interviewed 50.000 out of the world population of 1 billion.
The results:

- 7% think, the attacks of 9/11 were justified

- 93% think, the attacks were contrary to their religion: "If you kill an innocent, it is as if you killed all mankind."

- interviewed radical muslims never mentioned religious arguments to support terror. Instead they said, america deserves this for it's imperialism.

- radical muslims are as religious as the average muslim, but more well-educated and generally richer than average. They would support democracy, but don't believe in it.

- moderate muslims are mostly concerned about personal and economical security.

- radical muslims are mostly concerned about political/military interference in their home-country by the USA.

- "What do you most like about the west?" The top-answers: technology, freedom, democracy

- 84% of moderate muslims and 88% of radical muslims think, the west doesn't respect their culture and religion

- "What should the west do?" top-answer: "Stop looking down on the muslims."



This Gallup-poll is titled "Who speaks for Islam - What a billion muslims really think". It will be published as a book in march.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Imperialism? Nah, they hate us for our (smirk) freedoms." - Imperial Commander AWOL

"You can just shut up and sit down with all that fact-based survey shit. It does not fit our republicon homelander propaganda line, and there ain't no mention of it in the, um, a, Bible, or whatever. Smirk."

- Imperial Commander AWOL

[leftofcool]

2. Oh Please..........

Everbody knows that the Muslim Nations want to swoop in, take control of our government, burn our witches and pagans, make all of our women cover their heads, sprinkle anthrax on our kids' cheerios, and eat our babies. Somebody didn't get Bush's memo!! (prior to flames, please note heavy sarcasm)

Left of Cool

[alphafemale]

3. Anybody that actually KNOWS any Muslims doesn't need Gallup to tell them that.

All the Muslims I know are some of the kindest, generous people period.

[DetlefK]

4. Well, I know only one muslim, And he's a nice guy too.

[chelaque liberal]

5. Book up on Amazon for preorder

In a post-9/11 world, many Americans conflate the mainstream Muslim majority with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. But what do the world’s Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself? Who Speaks for Islam? spotlights this silenced majority. The book is the product of a mammoth six-year study in which the Gallup Organization conducted tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations — urban and rural, young and old, men and women, educated and illiterate. It asks the questions everyone is curious about: Why is the Muslim world so anti-American? Who are the extremists? Is democracy something Muslims really want? What do Muslim women want? The answers to these and other pertinent, provocative questions are provided not by experts, extremists, or talking heads, but by empirical evidence — the voices of a billion Muslims.



http://www.amazon.com/Who-Speaks-Islam-Billion-Muslims/dp/1595620176

[malaise]

6. Did they really need this poll?

How stupid have people become when they poll people based on Bushco's bullshit propaganda spin. :shrug:

[Smith_3]

7. Evangelicals hate our freedoms.

They hate our freedom to choose our sexual partner freely.
They hate our freedom to have children when we want to.
They hate our freedom to embrace other cultures and religions.
They hate our freedom of not being afraid of punishment.
They hate our freedom to embrace the facts of nature as facts.
They hate our freedom to be redeemed by the law.
They hate our freedom of voting for who we want to and not who we are told to vote for.
They hate our freedom of doing what we think is right, not what we are told is right.