Both Sides Are Correct In Their Assessments.

Note: These are interesting facts and statistics from the Pew Organisation in America. These reults can be believed. This is nutritious food for thought.



Last update - 02:08 25/06/2006


Poll: Relations between Muslims and West are poor

By The Associated Press

Muslims view people from the West, especially the United States and Europe, as selfish, immoral and greedy. People from the U.S. and Europe view Muslims as arrogant, violent and intolerant.

The deep divide between Muslims and the West was clearly illustrated in the findings of a new 15-country poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

A solid majority in most of the 15 countries polled, both in Europe and in the Mideast, said relations between Muslims and Westerners are generally bad. And each side blames the other.




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One of the more surprising findings in the poll was that solid majorities in Indonesia (65 percent), Turkey (59 percent), Egypt (59 percent) and Jordan (53 percent) said they do not believe the 9/11 attacks on the United States were carried out by groups of Arabs.

But Muslim support for terrorism is dropping in some countries. In Indonesia, Pakistan and especially in Jordan, there have been declines in the number of people who say suicide bombings can be justified.

Among the other findings:

* Anti-Jewish sentiment remains overwhelmingly high in Muslim countries.

* Majorities in the Muslim countries polled say the victory of Hamas in Palestinian elections will be helpful to a fair settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. That position is solidly rejected in the non-Muslim
countries.

* Overwhelming majorities in Muslim countries blame the controversy over cartoons depicting Mohammad on Western disrespect for the Muslim religion.

Majorities in Western countries tend to blame Muslim intolerance.

The polling in 15 countries of samples ranging from about 900 to 2,000 adults was conducted in April and May and has a margin of error ranging from 2 to 6 percentage points. The polling included Muslim oversamples in the European countries. In China, India and Pakistan, the polling was based on urban samples.

The nations in which polling was conducted were China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the United States.


Comment: It would be good for the government to pay the Pew Organisation to do a specific poll in Australia among local muslims and non muslims. I suspect it would show that the strong majority of local muslims want to intergrate fully into Australia. The local poisonous imams would ensure that the government therefore did not arrange for such a poll.