American Muslims think suicide bombings OK.

[Ghostrider]

Kudos to Couric: Highlights Pro-Terrorist Views of Fourth of Young Muslims in America
Posted by Brent Baker on May 22, 2007 - 20:46.

On Tuesday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric allocated a few seconds to alerting viewers to how a new poll discovered that a significant minority of Muslims in America hold “disturbing” views on the acceptability of suicide bombings and who carried out the 9/11 attacks. Neither the ABC or NBC evening newscasts mentioned the new non-network poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Though Pew headlined its report “Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream,” Couric picked up on the AP's spin (“Some US Muslims say suicide attacks OK” on Yahoo; CBSNews.com: “Poll: 26% Of Young U.S. Muslims OK Bombs”), as she reported: “One in four American Muslims under the age of 30 believe suicide bombings are acceptable in at least some cases if they're defending their religion. And only 40 percent of all American Muslims said they believe Arab men carried out the September 11th attacks.”

Muslims in America, however, are no more radical than Democrats in general, a majority of whom, a recent poll skipped by CBS and the other networks found, believe President Bush knew in advance of the 9/11 attacks or are not sure if he did. A May 4 Rasmussen Reports survey of 800 likely voters exposed how “Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure.” (Only 7 percent of the Muslims asked by Pew agreed “Bush/U.S. conspiracy responsible.” See page 51 of the PDF linked below.)

Another finding of concern in the Pew survey: 47 percent of Muslims in America think of themselves as “Muslims first” over being an American. Also noteworthy (see page 41 of the PDF): Muslims identify as Democrats over Republican by a whopping 63 to 11 percent and they voted for Kerry over Bush in 2004 by an overwhelming 71 to 14 percent.

The 100-page plus PDF of the full report on the poll of 1,050 Muslims in the United States. Check page 54 for the support for suicide bombings amongst those aged 18-29.

Couric's short item, on the May 22 CBS Evening News that she anchored from Philadelphia, in which she segued from news about al Qaeda using Iraq:
“And late word tonight, the White House has declassified some intelligence about a newly revealed terror plot against the United States allegedly ordered up by Osama bin Laden. According to the intelligence, bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in 2005 to form a terror cell that would use Iraq as a staging ground to launch attacks around the world with the United States the top target.

“Meanwhile, a new poll released today shows most American Muslims are critical of al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists, but there are some disturbing findings as well. One in four [26%] American Muslims under the age of 30 believe suicide bombings are acceptable in at least some cases if they're defending their religion. And only 40 percent of all American Muslims said they believe Arab men carried out the September 11th attacks. According to the FBI, all of the hijackers were Arab, most from Saudi Arabia.”

Link

Notice how CBS and NBC, among other mainstream media agencies, simply avoided the topic..

Makes you wonder why they would avoid it..


-Ghost

[trogdor1289]

There has a been a big contravsy over this after it was posted.
http://people-press.org/reports/disp...3?ReportID=329

Poll results by the Pew research center.

[General_J0k3r]

1,050 being asked? lol. anyone ever had statistics? that's ridiculous and no way representative...

[Guerra norte]

And I should care about this because.....?

[Blackhawk 5]

polls are inaccurate, all depends where u ask. If you ask people if they like baseball, and stand in front of a baseball field, then 99.% will say yes

[Garabaldi]

Muslims in America, however, are no more radical than Democrats in general

lawl

[[R-MOD]Saobh]

"American Muslims think suicide bombings OK." but to the question:
Can suicide bombing of civilian targets to defend Islam be justified
(all US Muslims)
- 8% often/sometimes
- 5% rarely
- 78% No

[page 53 of the report]

And then you criticize the media for being biased in their reporting ...

Yes it is worrisome, but don't inflate it.
Oh and thanks again for pointing to a very 'unbiased' site rather then the reports official site.

[General_J0k3r]

and with 5% statistical significance the confidence interval should be something around +- 7-9 percentage points for each answer. just to repeat more clearly what i stated above.

i myself for example don't think all americans are stupid coz theres a vid where people state that australia is iran on a map and dont even find north america...

[Ghostrider]

Originally Posted by General_J0k3r

1,050 being asked? lol. anyone ever had statistics? that's ridiculous and no way representative...

I have basic understanding of statistics, but I asked my syster because she has taken basic and intermediate statistics already, including projects. I asked her about this and she said that the percentage of reliability is more important than the number of people asked. Asking more than 1000 people is good because the percentage of reliability increases as you ask more people.

Now, if by your comment you mean that they should've asked 5,000 or 10,000 or a whole state...well that goes beyond ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Guerra norte

And I should care about this because.....?

You're input is always appreciated but no one said you had to care..

Cheers.


-Ghost

[General_J0k3r]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Ghostrider

I have basic understanding of statistics, but I asked my syster because she has taken basic and intermediate statistics already, including projects. I asked her about this and she said that the percentage of reliability is more important than the number of people asked. Asking more than 1000 people is good because the percentage of reliability increases as you ask more people.

Now, if by your comment you mean that they should've asked 5,000 or 10,000 or a whole state...well that goes beyond ridiculous.

your sister is completely right and this is not what i wanted to say. just, that one should use these kinds of statistics with caution.