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CBS Poll: Sinking Perceptions Of Islam
Get ready for mainstream media to start pushing the Islamophobia scam even harder, as another new poll from CBS shows Sinking Perceptions Of Islam.
And CBS illustrates their article with this lovely image:
(CBS) Although Americans believe they are better informed about Islam than they were five years ago, a new CBS News poll finds fewer than one in five say their impression of the religion is favorable.
Just a second; lets fix that first paragraph.
(LGF) Americans are better informed about Islam than they were five years ago, and a new CBS News poll finds fewer than one in five say their impression of the religion is favorable.Thats better; CBS seems to be constitutionally incapable of considering that there might be unfavorable views because Americans are better informed, not although they believe theyre better informed. Mainstream media has been cramming multiculturalist doublethink about Islam down the publics throat ever since September 11, and its pretty revealing that in spite of this ongoing effort we still see a growing negative perception.
Forty-five percent of respondents queried April 6 - 9 said they have an unfavorable view of Islam, a rise from 36 percent in February. And the publics impression of Islam has diminished even more compared with four years ago. In February 2002 less than six months after the terrorist attacks of September 11 the country was evenly divided in its impression of Islam.
WHAT IS YOUR IMPRESSION OF ISLAM?
FAVORABLE
Now
19%
2002
30%
UNFAVORABLE
Now
45%
2002
33%
Thirty-six percent of respondents said they havent heard enough or dont know enough to say either way.
Americans today are also more likely than not to believe that Islam encourages violence, at least in comparison to other religions around the world.
Robert Spencer has suggestions for Muslims disturbed by these poll results:
If Muslims around the world dont want Islam to be perceived as encouraging violence, they should take these five steps:
1. Stop committing violent acts.
2. Stop justifying those violent acts by reference to the Quran and Sunnah.
3. Stop saying violent or hateful things in private when they think no non-Muslims are around. For example, the imam Umar Abdul-Jalil, executive director of ministerial services for the New York City Department of Correction, was secretly recorded last year while speaking at an Islamic conference in Arizona. Muslims, he said, invoking Quran 48:29, must be compassionate with each other and hard against the kufr [unbeliever]. In Britain, Hamid Ali, imam of the mosque frequented by the July 7 bombers, praised the bombers and called their terror attack good in a conversation secretly recorded by an undercover journalist. Publicly, he had condemned the attacks. In a mosque in the Czech Republic, a Muslim secretly filmed by a documentary filmmaker says Islamic Sharia law, including the stoning of adulterers, should be adopted by the Czech Republic. Cleveland imam Fawaz Damra, who has since been deported for failing to disclose his ties to terror groups, signed the Fiqh Council of North Americas condemnation of terrorism, despite having declared at an Islamic conference that terrorism, and terrorism alone, is the path to liberation.
Do such incidents mean that every Muslim who professes to have adopted Western notions of pluralism and the equality of dignity and rights of non-Muslims and Muslims is dissembling? Of course not. But they do mean that non-Muslims are perfectly justified in being suspicious of Muslim protestations of moderation and opposition to terror. Consequently deeds, not just words, are needed. To conclude my five recommendations, genuinely anti-terror Muslims should:
4. Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism.
5. Actively work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.
I cannot imagine! :fifty:Adam's Apple said:Absolutely! And what about the 36% who said they didn't know enough/hadn't heard enough about the religion to have an opinion? Must be nice to purposely go around with your head in the sand these days.
Germans Negative on Islam, Poll Shows
Despite relentless governmental attempts to promote tolerance and multiculturalism, a new study shows that an overwhelming majority of Germans mistrust Muslims and Islam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Experts fear new conflicts after a study published this week showed most Germans doubt the Western and Islamic worlds can peacefully coexist. Mistrust of the 3 million Muslims living in Germany appears to be growing.
In spite of official attempts to promote dialog among religions, distrust of Islam continues to grow, with 60 percent of Germans expecting tension between traditional German society and immigrants from Muslim countries, according to an Allensbach study commissioned by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
Germans are increasingly of the opinion that a lasting, peaceful coexistence with the Islamic world will not be possible, the researchers said in the survey, released Wednesday.
Some 56 percent of Germans said they believed a clash of cultures already exists, partly a result of recent incidents that received a large amount of media attention, according to the surveys authors Elisabeth Noelle and Thomas Petersen.
The case of a Berlin honor killing, a quarrel over two Bonn students who wore burkas to school and discussions concerning increasing schoolyard violence among immigrant children have all made headlines in the German press recently.
In view of the diffuse feeling of being under threat, and the suspected intolerance of Islam, the readiness of Germans to show tolerance to the Muslim faith is sinking, Noelle and Petersen wrote.
More details at Expatica: Germans negative on Islam, poll shows.
Asked if they though Christianity and Islamic could co-exist peacefully, 61 per cent of those surveyed said they believed there would always be major conflicts between both faiths.Asked if there should be a ban on the building of mosques in Germany as long as the building of churches in some Islamic states is forbidden, 56 per cent agreed, said the poll.
Some 91 per cent said they associated Islam with oppression of women, up from 85 per cent in 2004.
The statement that Islam was dominated by fanaticism was shared by 83 per cent, compared to 75 per cent two years ago, the poll showed.
A total of 71 per cent said Islam was intolerant, up from 66 per cent in 2004.
There is even considerable backing for ending Germanys constitutional right of freedom of religion with regard to Islam, the poll showed.
Asked if strict limits should be imposed on the practice of Islam in Germany to protect the country, 40 per cent said they would support such moves.
