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| Educated Muslims found to have supported September 11 attacks |
| 2006-05-12 |
| A Gallop poll survey of eight Muslim countries has shown that those who applauded the 9/11 attacks tended to be better educated and more affluent. They were not necessarily more religious that other Muslims. The poll found that those who regularly attended the mosque were no more likely to back terrorism than those who did not. This also held true of Muslims who believed religion to be important in daily life. According to a Washington Post report, about 25 percent of all Muslims with a higher-than-average income supported the 9/11 attacks, more than the less affluent and the poor Muslims did. Among high school or college graduates, 44 percent held extremist views, compared with 38 percent of less educated Muslims. The unemployed were no more likely to back terrorism than those who worked full time. Extremists were only half as likely as moderates to believe that the US would allow people in the Middle East to fashion their own political future. |
| Posted by:john |
| #24 I'd wager it was closer to "enslaved" than "bought". |
| Posted by: AzCat 2006-05-12 16:59 |
| #23 "NO, they DID NOT!" I agree, they plagiarised and bought the skilled dhimmis to do those works and history, as taught, became myopic with the forgetful West. The first major fiasco by way of political correctness occured happened when you guys agreed to call 'em muslims and not, rightfully, Mohammadens as your forebears accurately 'em as. Afterwards they fool you(and many others too) blind (for a very long time) that your God and allah is the same Diety. BS all the way! |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-05-12 16:53 |
| #22 "the ironic thins is that at one time, the Muslim world DID produce art, literature, science, medicine, etc." NO, they DID NOT! All these things that have been attributed to Muslims, were actually the product of conquered cultures as Islam spread its filth! Islam, has brought nothing but death and misery everyplace it has taken root. -M |
| Posted by: Manolo 2006-05-12 16:05 |
| #21 This just tells me they hate us, not because of religion, but because we are the "others" |
| Posted by: Sping Cloluger7706 2006-05-12 15:32 |
| #20 The so called 'poor' in the middle east didn't just wake up one morning and decide to initiate Jihad on the infidel world. They were coached, incited, supplied and encouraged by the rich elitest and 'educated' in Riyadh, Damascus, Tehran, Cairo, etc. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-12 14:26 |
| #19 Time to connect some dots. I'd wager that the mythical Moderate Muslim™ is much more cosmopolitan than your typical dirt-poor Muslim peasant. What commonly drives that more sophisticated world-view is education. But wait! ... it's the more educated Muslims that support the 9-11 atrocity. So, where does that leave us? Right where I have been obliged to shift my opinion towards for some time now. Moderate Muslims™ are merely a silent but enabling faction of radical Islam and are not earnestly seeking peaceful coexistence with the kufir world. In closing, I'm beginning to feel that they can all f&ck off and die. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-05-12 14:11 |
| #18 Nope, 2x4, the uneducated simply go into direct action mode when offered a questionnaire. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-05-12 12:34 |
| #17 Less jihad = poor, ignorant, blockaded, on the run, and starving. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-12 12:19 |
| #16 The more educated and affluent they are, the more exposed to Western culture they are, and the more they see the inherent conflict between Western ideas and mores and Islamic ones. |
| Posted by: James 2006-05-12 12:15 |
| #15 No surprise. Educated people are idiots the world over. Just look at our "experts" and educated elite. Also see LLL. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-12 11:00 |
| #14 They are useless, the odd thing is that they give us no choice but to suspect every last one of 'em, and enable the elimination of Islam. Faster please. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-12 10:48 |
| #13 #8, the ironic thins is that at one time, the Muslim world DID produce art, literature, science, medicine, etc. Through the radicalization of Islam and the rise of the industrial west over the centuries, these things fell away. Rather than trying to revitalize their culture into something positive, they'd rather strike out in anger and jealousy at the west for having passed them by. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-12 10:32 |
| #12 More proof that "educated" has nothing to do with common sense - or common decency. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-12 09:40 |
| #11 If an Iranian supplied nuke happens to go off in America, I could probably turn the phrase to 'Educated Americans found to have supported the elimination of the glass pit formally known as Iran'. |
| Posted by: Chineger Sleper7584 2006-05-12 09:21 |
| #10 Ghasp and swoon, Ive got the vapors! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-05-12 08:43 |
| #9 I wouldn't be too hard on the poor "educated" muzzies, we've got some highly educated people right here (who claim US Citizenship) that think much the same way. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-05-12 08:11 |
| #8 I'll tell you EXACTLY why that is: Muslims have NOTHING to be proud of. They live in a region where there is more scientific research and technology innovation in the tiny speck of Israel than in ALL of the rest of the Muslim world. The produce NOTHING. They contribute NOTHING to the world of culture, arts, literature, medicine, science. Nothing. The irony is that they complain of being humiliated, yet they bring it on themselves. So of COURSE they grab on to Sept 11 as an accomplishment. It's all they have. How pathetic. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-05-12 07:48 |
| #7 Those who want (like me) to destroy Islam, are also more educated. This will be Islams last century. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2006-05-12 05:23 |
| #6 Well archived here too - not really news : http://www.islamundressed.com/ |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-05-12 03:56 |
| #5 Um this is news to anyone? Well it's confirmation. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-05-12 01:50 |
| #4 Educated in what? |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-05-12 00:42 |
| #3 This shouldn't be surprising. Look at our own so-called elites. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-05-12 00:34 |
| #2 Is it possible that the uneducated muslims preserve a degree of common sense and a rudiments of golden rule, while Yea, AzCat, it does. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-05-12 00:20 |
| #1 This roughly pegs the percentage of "extremists" hiding among those hordes of "moderate Muslims", no? |
| Posted by: AzCat 2006-05-12 00:07 |