130 Million Strong: Al-Qaeda’s Deep Muslim Support (Pajamas Media)

dec 21st, 2010

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From: Ravi

The latest Pew poll shows that a substantial minority of Religion of Peace members support terrorism as a means of achieving Islamic goals.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/130-million-strong-al-qaedas-deep-muslim-support/?singlepage=true

130 Million Strong: Al-Qaeda's Deep Muslim Support

A new poll offers a little silver lining and a whole lot of cloud.

December 18, 2010

On December 2, 2010, the Pew Research Center released the results of a new poll of six Muslim countries that sheds a surprising new light on the number of Muslims worldwide that support al-Qaeda. (The six countries polled: Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.) The report reveals that majorities of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims neither support al-Qaeda nor believe that suicide bombings are ever justified in defense of Islam. Osama bin Laden, the poll reveals,"receives overwhelmingly negative ratings in nearly all countries" asked about him. 

The Pew report coincides with an al-Qaeda videodistributed on October 23, 2010. In it, al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn airs al-Qaeda's poor view of the majority of Muslims. According to Gadahn, one part of the global Muslim community is apostate; another is victim to lustful, worldly influences; and a third (perhaps largest) portion has lost the ability to think for themselves, allowing clerics to turn them against al-Qaeda and the jihad.

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