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