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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (20788)12/23/2002 12:53:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll   of 27666
 
More than 1 in 4 respondents in Ghana, Indonesia, Senegal and Uganda said that suicide bombing was justifiable in defense of Islam; 1 in 3 in Pakistan and Mali said so; more than 4 in 10 in Jordan, Bangladesh and Nigeria agreed; and so did more than half in Ivory Coast; and 73 percent in Lebanon.

The notion of justifiable violence found the lowest level of support among the Muslims of Tanzania, Turkey and Uzbekistan, all below 20 percent. (The question was asked only of Muslim respondents; the Egyptian authorities did not allow it to be asked.)

iht.com

The recent Gallup poll found that 40% of Jordanians and 73% of Lebanese agreed that "suicide bombing is permissible in defense of Islam" The Egyptians didn't want anyone to know what the answer would be in their country.

You said,

Even if it there were, as you say, “millions upon millions of muslims like this”, it would still be a relatively small percentage.

but, we are definitely not talking about small percentages or fringe elements here, particularly in the Arab countries. That fact has to be recognized.
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