Survey of American Muslims

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Council on American-Islamic Relations: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." -Omar Ahmad Addressing a youth session at the 1999 Islamic Association for Palestine's annual convention in Chicago, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) founder Omar Ahmad praised suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam"

And lets not foget that 80% of US mosques are controlled by Saudis.
 
Aaron85 said:
Council on American-Islamic Relations: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." -Omar Ahmad Addressing a youth session at the 1999 Islamic Association for Palestine's annual convention in Chicago, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) founder Omar Ahmad praised suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam"

And lets not foget that 80% of US mosques are controlled by Saudis.
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The survey points out that the vast majority of American Muslims do not believe that suicide terrorism is justified by the Qu'ran. The only alarming statistic was the 10%(I believe) of American Muslim youth who seemed to believe that suicide terrorism was justified.
 
Keltoi said:
The survey points out that the vast majority of American Muslims do not believe that suicide terrorism is justified by the Qu'ran. The only alarming statistic was the 10%(I believe) of American Muslim youth who seemed to believe that suicide terrorism was justified.
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Not 10 % but 25 %.
 
Aaron85 said:
Not 10 % but 25 %.
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Was it 25%? Well, that is more alarming that the percentage I had in mind. Oh well, youth are youth and aren't usually thinking in realistic terms. As long as they only talk I won't worry about it.
 
adults above 30 had a 82% negative reaction towards suicide bombings, I'm liking those numbers. Hopefully it will increase.
 
Erundur said:
adults above 30 had a 82% negative reaction towards suicide bombings, I'm liking those numbers. Hopefully it will increase.
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Now I think it is really scarry that 18% don't have a negative reaction. :raging:
I guess that would be about 450 thousand. :?
 
wilberhum said:
Now I think it is really scarry that 18% don't have a negative reaction. :raging:
I guess that would be about 450 thousand. :?
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Well, that's also considering the fact that 40% of Americans are against Muslims living in America.
 
wilberhum said:
Now I think it is really scarry that 18% don't have a negative reaction. :raging:
I guess that would be about 450 thousand. :?
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That's why I'm hoping that it will increase, no to suicide.
 
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I found this interesting. Not really surprising, as I always assumed American Muslims were more comfortable than European Muslims, but still interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_re_us/poll_muslim_americans
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this survey means absolutely nothing and is just anti islamic propaganda. i guess the article got more clicks for the headline 'Some US Muslims Say Suicide Attacks OK' as opposed to 'A majority of US Muslims oppose suicide attacks.' which just as truthful

i especially liked the little blurb at the end of the article

Telephone interviews were conducted with 1,050 Muslim adults from January through April, including in Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. Subjects were chosen at random, from a separate list of households including some with Muslim-sounding names, and from Muslim households that had answered previous surveys.
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'hey bob, does salma hayek sound muslim to you?'
'uh, sure... why not...what about 'Paula Abdul'?...that sounds like a US muslim name...'

John Stewart....that sounds like a christian name! ;D

honestly...they didn't even go to a masjid!

surveys can be designed in a way to obtain a certain result... ie,

'how many times do you beat your dog? 1) rarely 2) sometimes 3)frequently'
all of those answers would have you saying that you beat your dog, even if you don't'

'fill in the blank
It's ok to beat the dog.... 1) only after a long day from work 2) to shut him up at night 3) when my favorite football team loses

but hey...it was in the news, i'm not shocked that most americans bought into it. we believe everything we read see and hear, without question...unless it's about global warning, and the need for conservation....then it's all a 'bunch of leftist fear mongering'...the things people want to believe...they will, and the things they don't...they don't
 
And it's such a small samplng of people, a thousand people? so out of roughly a thousand people only 100 justified it? what's the crime statistics in the US? at least 1 in ever 136 americans are in JAIL FOR CRIMES THEY ALREADY COMMITTED.... and 1 in every 32 americans are under correctional supervision.

it's funny how those statistics don't mention religon at all in the numbers....criminals are just that criminals

why don't we worry about our own problems before getting our underpants in a knot over what if senario
 
i mean, seriously, out of 1000 people rougly 900 oppose it, while supposedly 100 say ok...and the headline is 'some US Muslims say suicide bombing ok'.... now we've created anti islamic sentiment and headache for the 900 that opposed it... cuz you know the american joe is not going to remember the word 'SOME' they're going to remember US Muslims say suicide bombing ok...



ps, if i had the option to edit my post i would add these things....but i have to post things as a new reply..
 
All surveys and polls are done with a sample of the population. There is no such thing as a survey that talks to everybody. A similar survey in Britain found similar results.
 
This was all over CNN, I never took that Survey
 
Ra`eesah said:
This was all over CNN, I never took that Survey
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I've only been surveyed once for presidential election polls, but more times than not they are fairly accurate at predicting results...recent history aside.
 
Ra`eesah said:
This was all over CNN, I never took that Survey
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you know, i never got a phone call....nether did my husband...but i guess the name 'Anthony' doesn't sound to arabic...or muslim...so out the window that went
 
lilah said:
i mean, seriously, out of 1000 people rougly 900 oppose it, while supposedly 100 say ok...and the headline is 'some US Muslims say suicide bombing ok'.... now we've created anti islamic sentiment and headache for the 900 that opposed it... cuz you know the american joe is not going to remember the word 'SOME' they're going to remember US Muslims say suicide bombing ok...



ps, if i had the option to edit my post i would add these things....but i have to post things as a new reply..
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Your suspicion of the wording of a poll is a valid point and I would agree that the selection criteria seem somewhat amateurish, but, on the other hand, the London bombers were home grown, so it also glib of you to dismiss it so lightly.

If they achieved a true random sample, 1000 is a good-sized number and would have quite a bit of statistical power, allowing one to generalize.

My guess is they may have achieved a random sample of people with listed telephone numbers and Arabic-soundig names. :) It does make me wonder, if they called everyone with "al" in their name, did they call Al Gore?
 
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