Friday, May 25, 2007

Post-Dispatch Distorts Poll

I don't feel comfortable. Do you feel comfortable?

According to the Post-Dispatch:
WASHINGTON — Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.

The survey by the Pew Research Center reported that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims polled said the use of suicide bombings against civilian targets to defend Islam is never justified. But 5 percent said it is justified "rarely," 7 percent said "sometimes," and 1 percent said "often"; the remaining 9 percent said they did not know or declined to answer.

Their headline reads: U.S. Muslims oppose extremism, poll says