----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Markham To: NEWSROOM-L at LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 10:08 AM Subject: [NEWSROOM-L] For What It's Worth Dept.
In a new study just released today by Cornell University, sixty-five percent of self-described highly religious people queried said they view Islam as encouraging violence more than other religions do;
42 percent of the respondents who said they were not highly religious saw Islam as encouraging violence.
Highly religious respondents also were more likely to describe Islamic countries as:
violent 64%
fanatical 61% dangerous 64%.
Almost half of respondents polled nationally said they believe the U.S. government should -- in some way -- curtail civil liberties for Muslim Americans.
27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location with the federal government, and 26 percent said they think that mosques should be closely monitored by U.S. law enforcement agencies.
40 percent of Republican respondents agreed that Muslim Americans should be required to register their whereabouts, compared with 24 percent of Democratic respondents and 17 percent of independents. Forty-one percent of Republican respondents said that Muslim American civic groups should be infiltrated, compared with 21 percent of Democrats and 27 percent of independents.
And, to me, most interesting is the finding:
Respondents who paid a lot of attention to television news were more likely to favor restrictions on civil liberties, such as greater power for the government to monitor the Internet.
"The more attention paid to television news, the more you fear terrorism, and you are more likely to favor restrictions on civil liberties."
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec04/Muslim.Poll.bpf.html
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