Report: Muslim Americans Are Incredibly Normal - Polidicks

[url=http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/new-report-muslim-americans-arent-terrorists]Mother Jones[/url] [release]The Pew Center has a new 136-page report out about Muslim Americans. The report's title, "Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism" makes Pew's perspective clear, and seems directed at some conservatives who suggest that all Muslims and Muslim Americans are potential terrorists. Or professors and physicists. But mostly terrorists. The survey shows Muslim Americans as being distinctly anti-terror, with 48% of them saying U.S. Muslim leaders "have not done enough" to speak out against Islamic extremists. Only 1% of those surveyed said there was "often" a justifiable excuse for using violence to defend Islam, and only 5% had a favorable view of Al Qaeda. The majority of Muslim Americans (60%) were concerned about rising Islamic extremism in the US, and they have good reason: 55% of them say life in America has become "more difficult" since 9/11, 25% say that mosques and Islamic centers where they live have been targeted, and 43% say they've been treated with suspicion or called names in the past year. Six percent were physically attacked or threatened because of their religion. Despite the harassment some Muslim Americans face, they are actually more satisfied with life than the average U.S. citizen. As Gawker points out, Muslim Americans are more American in some ways: They're more likely to watch college football than the average American, more likely to believe that that people can get ahead in life with hard work, and are more likely to attend weekly worship services. Another way that Muslim Americans are just like non-Muslim Americans is that some of them belive Obama is a Muslim. About 10% of American Muslims falsely believe the president shares their faith, as compared to 18% of the general public. One important difference: for the general public, people who dislike Obama's performance are three times as likely to believe he's Muslim. For Muslim Americans, things were reversed. Eleven percent of Muslim Americans who approve of Obama's job performance think he's Muslim, and only 3% of those who dislike his performance believed he was. Seems that Americans of all faiths could be a wee bit guilty of letting their beliefs influence their facts rather than the other way around. [/release]

MY GOD MAN THIS CHANGES [B]EVERYTHING[/B]

And the far right nutjobs will just ignore this unfortunately.

Never would have guessed.

liberal homo propaganda

They're [i]incredibly[/i] normal? So much so, would you say, that they're [i]abnormally[/i] normal? Seems they're abnormal after all. I knew they couldn't be trusted.

I think the freedom and liberty is a really good thing for the immigration in the Us, hopefully leads to less "Parallel Society" like in most European countries. Canada is probably doing it even better.

Does this mean I can trust them?!

1/4 Muslims' mosques have been targeted in the past? That's a seriously alarming number

[QUOTE=lum1naire;32062503]Does this mean I can trust them?![/QUOTE] Always check for a bombvest when hugging your favorite muslim.

I don't get how people call Muslims "terrorists" just because the guys that bombed things are Muslims. It's like me judging everyone that is [Insert some Religion] just because a few guys annoyed me from that Religion. Ok I'm done brb hijacking plane

The sky is blue, the grass is green. Still, this report was sadly necessary, because it seems everyone in the US thinks all Muslims are terrorists even still. I hope we get another Martin Luther King Junior that fights for their rights.

I looked it up, not a single major news outlet has reported this.

[QUOTE=Tunak Mk. II;32062338]liberal homo propaganda[/QUOTE] Gay liberal homo Muslim extremist terrorist homosexual communist propaganda made by Satan himself claims that Muslims are human beings. More at 11.

people should be ashamed of themselves for even assuming the contrary.

Can I get a [I]no shit[/I]?

The Unabomber was a Christian terrorist, yet nobody cared about his religion.

[QUOTE=Upgrade123;32063030]The Unabomber was a Christian terrorist, yet nobody cared about his religion.[/QUOTE] No he wasn't. He was atheist. Not that it makes it any better, or makes him better than Islamic terrorists, but it's just factually wrong. I don't even know why I care.

This is all a conspiracy set up by the Decepticons. Ur all sheeple.

well no shit.

People? Acting according to the societal customs of the country they reside in? What an absurd notion. It fucking baffles me that we need studies and reports about this shit, god this country is fucking retarded.

[QUOTE=yuki;32063920]People? Acting according to the societal customs of the country they reside in? What an absurd notion. It fucking baffles me that we need studies and reports about this shit, god this country is fucking retarded.[/QUOTE] Its always nice to check whether or not your minorities are feeling more or less alienated since last time you looked in on them, and making decisions as to whether or not you need to be doing more to help them feel included needs evidence behind it. This report could very easily have said "lots of muslims feel the government is being shit towards them so are starting to feel sympathetic towards anti-government movements".

[QUOTE=thisispain;32062955]people should be ashamed of themselves for even assuming the contrary.[/QUOTE] But muslims are muslims are muslims!? They did 9/11?? Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, and Josef Stalin were muslims. Explain that, buddy. Explain that. /argument I bet you are a Moslum yourself. vote contag 2012 Republican candidate [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=RichyZ;32063801]stil terroits to me god bles sgeroge bush im so joining th army to shoot those bastards[/QUOTE] This patriotic young man is what America needs! [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Mabus;32063831]well no shit.[/QUOTE] Communist. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Icedshot;32064192]Its always nice to check whether or not your minorities are feeling more or less alienated since last time you looked in on them, and making decisions as to whether or not you need to be doing more to help them feel included needs evidence behind it. This report could very easily have said "lots of muslims feel the government is being shit towards them so are starting to feel sympathetic towards anti-government movements".[/QUOTE] Minorities are in a constant state of war against the majority. You are betraying your people and your country by supporting these job-stealing terrorists. Of course you would, being a [I]dirty socialist.[/I] [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Chrille;32063283]No he wasn't. He was atheist.[/QUOTE] Um, no, FACT: he was a brainwashed moslem. FACT: He was brainwashed with muslim techniques in the first gulf war. FACT: You are an unamerican traitor. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=rosar0980;32062978]Can I get a [I]no shit[/I]?[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.facepunch.com/avatar/276829.png[/img] You call yourself an American and display the most ridiculous drawn guns I've ever seen? CONFIRMED for liberal. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=SoaringScout;32062926]Gay liberal homo Muslim extremist terrorist homosexual communist propaganda made by Satan himself claims that Muslims are human beings. More at 11.[/QUOTE] Couldn't have said it better myself. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Stupideye;32062310]And the far right nutjobs will just ignore this unfortunately.[/QUOTE] Like you've been ignoring the FACTS since the day your pinko liberal mother expelled you from here cannabis infested uterus? [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;32062491]I think the freedom and liberty is a really good thing for the immigration .[/QUOTE] The only good immigration is NO immigration. This is a scientifically and morally proven FACT.

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;32062491]I think the freedom and liberty is a really good thing for the immigration in the Us, hopefully leads to less "Parallel Society" like in most European countries. Canada is probably doing it even better.[/QUOTE] Uhm What makes you believe they have more freedom and liberty than europeans? Also, i feel a bit bad for muslims that get picked on because some other muslim scum did some shit.

Contag the Colbert shtick gets really old really quickly, please stop.

[QUOTE=Reimu;32062652]1/4 Muslims' mosques have been targeted in the past? That's a seriously alarming number[/QUOTE] I know, right? We give Homeland Security billions every year, and they can only target (not even attack!?) 1/4 of Muslim child-rape-temples a year? Disgusting. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Lambeth;32064357]Contag the Colbert shtick gets really old really quickly, please stop.[/QUOTE] Colbert is quite clearly a faux-conservative, he's not really sure of his position or character. I'm just making this thread ideologically balanced so you folks can see the other side of American politics. And subsequently kill yourself or move to Canada.

[QUOTE=BlackMac;32062792]I don't get how people call Muslims "terrorists" just because the guys that bombed things are Muslims. It's like me judging everyone that is [Insert some Religion] just because a few guys annoyed me from that Religion. Ok I'm done brb hijacking plane[/QUOTE] Islam is something people don't understand. We have an awful history of treating everything from other religions, to other ethnicities, to other races different simply because they aren't the norm. If the bombers were Christian extremists, everyone would claim that they were extreme outliers of the Christian religion to the point of complete and utter perversion. But they aren't, they're Islamic: a religion that most Americans know little about, and even less Americans feel comfortable around. Look-up "Should the Chinese Be Excluded?" by R.G. Ingersoll. It's scary how true his opinion rings 120 years later, with the Chinese now Arabs.

[QUOTE=Reimu;32064386]Islam is something people don't understand. We have an awful history of treating everything from other religions, to other ethnicities, to other races different simply because they aren't the norm. Look-up "Should the Chinese Be Excluded?" by R.G. Ingersoll. It's scary how true his opinion rings 120 years later, with the Chinese now Arabs.[/QUOTE] It's true, and reinforced by the media. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] Precisely why I doubt this story will be picked up by many media outlets.

This is just so they can get more terrorists into our homes and STEEL UR JERBS

[QUOTE=Contag;32064416]It's true, and reinforced by the media. [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] Precisely why I doubt this story will be picked up by many media outlets.[/QUOTE] Luckily, over time that sort of stereotyping and prejudice towards Muslims will die down when someone else takes their place. To be fair though, to look at R.G. Ingersoll's writings technically, Hispanics - not Arabs - are most likely the Chinese of the 21st century. With Arabic people probably being the Italians.