HuffPo: "Link Between Islam And Violence Rejected By Many Americans After Boston Bombings: Pew Survey"

A very interesting post from www.jihadwatch.org about some who deny a link between Islam and violence. This follows this post about Christians being persecuted in China, Iran, and Pakistan! This follows this post about Muslim murders in Nigeria.  This follows this article about American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries such as Iran . For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE!

HuffPo: "Link Between Islam And Violence Rejected By Many Americans After Boston Bombings: Pew Survey"


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If only that link had been rejected by the Tsarnaev brothers. "Link Between Islam And Violence Rejected By Many Americans After Boston Bombings: Pew Survey," by Jaweed Kaleem for the Huffington Post, May 7:



After the Boston Marathon bombing suspects were revealed to be Muslims who investigators said were motivated in part by radical Islam, American Muslims were quick to condemn the bombings and plea for Americans to not retaliate against the peaceful majority.



Now, the results of a new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press show that despite heightened interest around radical Islam's connection to the Boston attacks, Americans' view of whether Islam is more likely than other religions to support violence remains close to what it has been for the past decade. The survey also found that Americans view Muslims as the group that's most discriminated against when compared to gays and lesbians, African Americans, Hispanics and women.



As Holder himself inadvertently admitted recently, anti-Semitic hate crimes are much more common than hate crimes against Muslims. In any case, the question of discrimination and hate crimes is a separate one from whether or not Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions. The fact that it is more likely to do doesn't justify any attacks against any innocent people, or any discrimination against anyone. To consider these two questions together is a tactic on Jaweed Kaleem's part, to imply that speaking honestly about Islam and violence leads to hatred and discrimination against innocent Muslims. The goal is to intimidate people into thinking that there's something wrong with noticing the connection between Islamic texts and teachings and violence.





The survey, which was released Tuesday, found that 42 percent of Americans believe Islam is "more likely" than other religions to encourage violence among believers, while 46 percent say it's not any more likely to promote violence than other faiths. Those figures are within 7 percentage points of the results of surveys going back to 2003 that have asked the same question. Only in 2002 did Pew find widely different results to the question about Islam and violence, when 25 percent of those surveyed said Islam was more likely to encourage violence while 51 percent disagreed.



This is tantamount to finding that 46 percent of Americans say that leaves are no more likely to sprout on trees than on armadillos.

Posted by Robert