Apparently it’s also a question of playing defence against blinkered ignorance and outright stupidity, which is to say the ideological agenda-driven anti-American media, among others. For example, as I understand it, according to polls conducted right here, many in Canada agree with the Egyptians, Moroccans, Indonesians, and urban Pakistanis, the majority of whom, according to this report, do NOT believe that al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks, but rather it was George Bush and “the Jews”. I believe those Canadians are the ones who watch Canada’s state-run media, because I believe one actually gets stupider with each moment watching it.
It’s not al-Qaeda who is saying that they weren’t responsible for 9/11. They bend over backwards and take great pride in their being responsible for it and all sorts of other global terror attacks. So who is it that is responsible for spreading this hideous belief or are committed to surrendering and allowing it to spread and foment? Not conservatives from Canada or America, that’s who.
MUSLIM SENTIMENT
U.S. TRYING TO ERODE ISLAM: SURVEY
BY JUDY MATHEWSON
Bloomberg NewsWASHINGTON • Majorities in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia say undermining Islam is a likely goal of U.S. foreign policy and are unconvinced that alQaeda committed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a poll released yesterday.
The survey by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes questioned 1,000 or more people in each country. A majority of those surveyed in Morocco and Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population of any country, said it is a goal of the U.S. war on terror to “spread Christianity” in the Middle East.
“While U.S. leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people in the Islamic world clearly perceive the U.S. as being at war with Islam,” said Steven Kull, the program’s director.
George W. Bush, the U.S. President, has said the United States targets only those who commit violence in the name of Islam, not the religion itself.
“America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam, which inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity and morality,” he said in December, 2002, for example.
The poll suggests many Muslims do not believe him.
In Egypt 92% of respondents believe it is a probable or definite U.S. goal to “weaken and divide the Islamic world,” compared with 78% in Morocco and 73% in Indonesia and urban Pakistan.
Only 28% of Egyptians, 26% of Indonesians, 35% of Moroccans and 2% of urban Pakistanis said they believe al-Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks, according to the poll.
Thirty-eight per cent of Egyptians blamed the United States or Israel for the attacks, as did 20% of Indonesians, 31% of Moroccans and 28% of urban Pakistanis.
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Spreading Christianity in the Middle East was probably or definitely a U.S. goal to 67% of Moroccans, 64% of urban Pakistanis and 61% of Indonesians. The survey group said it was not allowed to ask the question in Egypt.
Most of those questioned want U.S. military forces out of the Middle East and many approve of attacks on U.S. troops there. Support is strongest in Egypt, where at least 83% of people “strongly approve” of such attacks.
However, attacks on civilians were not condoned: 84% of Indonesians, 81% of urban Pakistanis and 77% of Egyptians took that position. In Morocco 57% agreed, while 19% said such attacks can be “weakly justified.”
Attitudes toward al-Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden, are complex, the survey found.
Forty per cent of Egyptians said they had “somewhat” or “very” positive feelings about bin Laden, compared with 21% in Indonesia and 27% in Morocco and urban Pakistan.
—From the National Post
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