[lbo-talk] Pew polls American Muslims

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue May 22 12:47:25 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/483/muslim-americans>
>
> Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream
> May 22, 2007
>
> The first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans
> finds them to be largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and
> moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims
> and Westerners around the world.

Of course no one has dropped bombs on them, overthrown their elected governments, financed death-squads to terrorize them (the Israeli Defense Force is clearly just an overgrown death squad), rampaged through their streets, kicked in their doors, beat them up, raped them, etc. All these things probably have a lot more to do with Muslim attitudes worldwide than any religious doctrine.

Carrol



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