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Because we were talking about attitudes towards
terrorism, I snipped this David Cloud's newsletter.
SUPPORT FOR SUICIDE BOMBINGS AND BIN LADEN HIGH
AMONG SOME MUSLIMS (Friday Church News Notes,
September 18, 2009, www.wayoflife.org
[log in to unmask], 866-295-4143) - The following
is excerpted from CNSNews, Sept. 11, 2009: “A new
survey gauging Muslim attitudes indicates that
backing for suicide bombings against civilians,
while generally down from earlier years, remains
significant in some Islamic
countries--challenging the assertion that Muslims
supporting terrorism constitute a ‘tiny
minority.’ In the Pew Global Attitudes Project
poll released on Thursday, 68 percent of
Palestinian Muslim respondents said suicide
bombings against civilians were justifiable ‘to
defend Islam from its enemies.’ That view was
shared by 43 percent of respondents in Nigeria
and 38 percent in Lebanon, where 51 percent of
Shi’ites held the view compared to 25 percent of
Sunnis. ... Pakistan recorded the most striking
drop: In 2004, 41 percent of respondents
justified suicide terrorism, whereas the number
recorded this year was five percent. ... The Pew
survey also found although majorities in Nigeria
(54 percent) and the Palestinian territories (52
percent) expressed “confidence in the al Qaeda
leader [Osama bin Laden] to do the right thing
regarding world affairs. ... The poll comes amid
reports that the New York Police
Department--after taking flak from Muslim
organizations--has inserted into a key report on
terrorism a ‘statement of clarification,’ saying
among other things that ‘a tiny minority of
Muslims … subscribe to al-Qaeda’s ideology of war and terror.’”
John
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