Islam - Muslims Deserting bin Laden

According to a recent poll.

But for some strange reason, The Washington Post uses the opprotunity to criticize the administration.

The poll results are a rare piece of good news for the Bush administration, which has faced difficulties seeing gains in its two top foreign policy goals -- combating terrorism and promoting democracy in the Islamic world.

(scratches head) Well let's see. No attacks on American soil since 9/11, Afghanistan liberated, Iraq liberated, Syria leaves Lebanon and Libya gives up its weapons of mass destruction. All of which has obviously played a part in influencing Muslims to desert bin Laden.

Rare good news?

The only difficulty in gains is getting the media to admit that Bush is right and they are wrong.

Now to the poll itself.

"Most Muslim publics are expressing less support for terrorism than in the past. Confidence in Osama bin Laden has declined markedly in some countries, and fewer believe suicide bombings that target civilians are justified in the defense of Islam," the poll concluded.

The one exception is attitudes toward suicide bombings of U.S and Western targets in Iraq, a subject on which Muslims were divided. Roughly half of Muslims in Lebanon, Jordan and Morocco said such attacks are justifiable, while sizable majorities in Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia disagreed. Yet, support for suicide bombings in Iraq still declined by as much as 20 percent compared with a poll taken last year.

The results, which also reveal widespread support for democracy, show how profoundly opinions have changed in parts of the Muslim world since Pew took similar surveys in recent years. The poll attributed the difference in attitudes toward extremism to both the terrorist attacks in Muslim nations and the passage of time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

But you guys tell us daily that Iraq is fueling terrorism world wide. So, which is it? Is support for terrorism waning as time passes since we liberated Iraq or is Iraq fueling world wide terrorism? You can't have it both ways guys.

The new poll also found that growing majorities or pluralities of Muslims now say that democracy can work in their countries and is not just a Western ideology. Support for democracy was in the 80 percent range in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco. It was selected by 43 percent in Pakistan and 48 percent in Turkey -- the largest blocks of respondents in both countries because significant numbers were unsure.

"They are not just paying lip service. They are saying they specifically want a fair judiciary, freedom of expression and more than one party in elections. It wasn't just a vague concept," Kohut said. "U.S. and Western ideas about democracy have been globalized and are in the Muslim world."

And who do we have to thank for that? GEORGE W. BUSH!!

But we still have a long way to go. The biggest challenge is the reformation of Islam. Note this from the poll.

The Muslims surveyed had mixed views on Christians, and anti-Jewish sentiment was "endemic," the survey reported.

That's because Islam is intolerant of all other religions and preaches hate against the Jews. Islam must be reformed.
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