[Dean's World] Ali Eteraz: Pew Research, US Muslims and Suicide Bombings

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Posted by Ali Eteraz:
Pew Research, US Muslims and Suicide Bombings
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1180050122.shtml


   My latest is up at Huffington Post. [1]US Muslims and Suicide
   Bombings:

     25% of US Muslims under 30 support suicide bombings in some
     capacity. As a 26 year old American-Muslim, I am concerned about
     these findings.

     The Pew Center for Research recently released the findings of a
     [2]comprehensive survey about US Muslims, entitled "Muslim
     Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream." The study confirms
     the already obvious -- that US Muslims are mostly well integrated
     and quite well off.

     There is no reason to celebrate this "discovery" because US Muslims
     have known this for quite some time.The focus must be on the
     [3]problems discovered. 13% of US Muslims of all ages feel that
     there are scenarios in which suicide bombings are justified. Only
     40% of all US Muslims believe that Arabs carried out the 9/11
     attacks. US Muslims, in comparison with all Americans, favor
     governmental intrusion in morality almost 2 to 1. Numbers show that
     the Blackamerican Muslim population does not share the financial
     success or the social optimism of immigrant Muslims. Homosexuals
     are reviled. A large number of youth, almost three times as many as
     in Pakistan, believe that there is an inherent conflict between
     faith and modern life.

     Over my next couple of posts I will be evaluating just a few of the
     troubling and startling discoveries in the survey, starting with
     the one that has been bothering me the most: 25% of US Muslims
     under 30 support suicide bombings in some capacity.

References

   1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/us-muslims-and-suicide-bo_b_49286.html
   2. http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=329
   3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201463_2.html?hpid=moreheadlines