Public opinion in Britain is mostly favourable towards Muslims, but the feeling is not requited by British Muslims, who are among the most embittered in the western world, according to a global poll published yesterday.
The poll found that 63% of all Britons had a favourable opinion of Muslims, down slightly from 67% in 2004, suggesting last year's London bombings did not trigger a significant rise in prejudice. Attitudes in Britain were more positive than in the US, Germany and Spain (where the popularity of Muslims has plummeted to 29%), and about the same as in France.
Less than a third of British non-Muslims said they viewed Muslims as violent, significantly fewer than non-Muslims in Spain (60%), Germany (52%), the US (45%) and France (41%).
By contrast, the poll found that British Muslims represented a "notable exception" in Europe, with far more negative views of westerners than Islamic minorities elsewhere on the continent. A significant majority viewed western populations as selfish, arrogant, greedy and immoral. Just over half said westerners were violent. While the overwhelming majority of European Muslims said westerners were respectful of women, fewer than half British Muslims agreed. Another startling result found that only 32% of Muslims in Britain had a favourable opinion of Jews, compared with 71% of French Muslims.
The Pew poll found that British Muslims are far more likely than their European counterparts to harbour conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. Only 17% believed that Arabs were involved, compared with 48% in France.
Ironically from The Guardian, who happens to be one of the mouthpieces of this fifth column, regularly absolving British Muslims of any responsibility whatsoever, placing blame squarely on the West. They have also famously employed Islamic extremists as journalists.
British Muslims have the most negative view of Westerners perhaps in the whole of the Western world.
It's just embarassing that the majority of the British public can be so out of touch with what's actually going on, it really is.
[Cross posted at Drunken]
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And what will be the reaction of the British government? They will say "Sorry" (God knows why) and increase the immigration quota. ;)
Send in more social workers!
I'm not sure who is more delusionary ..the muslims, the britons, or the british govt.
HUNTINGTON !
I am reminded of what Frodo said to Gandalf about the ring when they first discovered its power,
"We'll put it away, and we shan't think of it again."
The Pew poll found that British Muslims are far more likely than their European counterparts to harbour conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. Only 17% believed that Arabs were involved, compared with 48% in France.
Compare to a similar article in today's WaPo:
Moreover, in what Kohut called a "gee-whiz" finding, solid majorities of Muslims living in Muslim countries and in Britain said they did not believe that Arabs carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on the United States.
"It's one of the finds that makes you realize that deep emotional feelings get in the way of facts," Kohut said.
Britain is like the patient in the doctor's office who doesn't want to look at the x-rays the doctor is trying to show him. What they reveal just doesn't bear thinking on. It's better not to know.
ny times has a better version
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/world/europe/22cnd-pew.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I am not at all surprised about the data from Britain, nor am I surprised that continental Europeans have a better grasp of reality; but I am happy that Muslims in continental Europe are not as radical as in Britain.
So basically this is good news for me.
TONI BLAIR'S COMMENTS ON THESE FINDINGS:
Well actually, I'm terribly afraid we have been rather bad-mannered and done something to offend these Muslim chaps. After all, Muslims are perfectly normal blokes who just want to get on in life, get the best prospects for their kids, enjoy the benefits of the welfare state, live in a nice house, exterminate Jews, enslave Christians and rape Kafir women and children.
It really is frightfully awful that our Muslim fellow countrymen should think us a bit put-offish even though Prince Charles (pbuh) said how welcome they were to rampage though Cool Britania.
Perhaps the solution to the problem is a bit of the old interfaith chin-wag. I'll ask the Archbishop of Canterbury to invite some of these Jihadi fellows round for afternoon tea and sort out these misconceptions.
You know, deep down all religions are just like the jolly old Church of England. And as for those dreadfully misunderstood passages in the Koran (and I have read the Koran straight through sixteen times - absolutely rivetting stuff- can't put it down !).
Well, you see, those passgaes in the Koran that appear to tell Muslims to kill Jews and Christians wherever they find them and chop off their heads and genitals and stick their dicks in their mouths are completely misinterpreted. For one thing they don't apply in Britain. Well not outside Bradford anyway.
And for another thing, they're misunderstood because we can't understand them. Being infidels we're not worthy to grasp the full spiritual meaning of the Holy Koran.
The Koran can only be understood by someone who knows classical Arabic. And my Muslim friends tell me that 'Kill and mutilate the infidels' really means 'Help old ladies to cross the street and be kind to animals' - Yes, all Religions are basically just like the Church of England.
I also wrote about this on my blog, though everybody can also access the original poll results right here
About the 9/11 question - this is the one question most European Muslims refused to answer or answered with a "don't know".
That is, though it's true that only 17% of UK Muslims said that Arabs were responsible, only 56% believe they are not, leaving a big 27% who refused to answer. The only exception was France, with only 6% refusing to answer this question.
I wonder why this was a much touchier issue than answering whether suicide bombings themselves are justified. (here too, French Muslims were more liable to answer, and in this case, were the most fanatic)
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