Muslims & Americans – Violence is never justifiable
Contrary to popular, Muslims do not support violence against ordinary civilians any more than Americans and others. While exceptions may exists throughout Islamic society, the majority of Muslims themselves do not condone violence and are more likely to be against it than their American counterparts.
Terror Free Tomorrow conducted a survey in December of 2006 to find out just who truly believed violence against civilians to be justifiable.
It found that a good 46% of Americans believed that any type of violence against civilians in any situation is never justifiable, while a shocking 24% would “often” or “sometimes” believe that violence against civilian populations is justified. One might say that this should be taken with a grain of salt, but, realistically, these numbers make sense, given the lack of total moral outrage in the general American public about the atrocities happening in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hands of their soldiers.
The same survey conducted in 2006, also asked respondents in predominantly Arab/Islamic nations for their feed back to get an idea of just how many people in these nations supported or condemned violence against civilians populations.
In the predominantly Islamic nations, violence against civilian populations was found to be “never justified”. 74% of Indonesians respondents, 86% of Pakistani respondents and 81% of Bengali respondents agreed that violence/terrorism against civilian populations are never justifiable.
The survey found that Muslims were equally as opposed to acts of terrorism as Americans, if not more so. Yet, it seems that the media would rather portray Muslims as maniacal gun-toting, bombing building lunatics hell bent on blowing up civilian populations. These are a very tiny minority, but in the eyes of the liberal media, this is what keeps viewers and not stories from the moderates who are the real majority of Muslims.
The same survey found that even those who were in support of violence, did view America favourably in some ways, namely if America had done something the person saw as a valuable contribution to their home nation.
So, tell me again, why we have the war on terror and exactly what is it going to achieve?
The myth of Muslim support for terror
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