A Fascinating Look at the Political Views of Muslim Americans

"In an August 3, 2011 article titled "

A Fascinating Look at the Political Views of Muslim Americans:

"the Atlantic magazine reported: "An arm of the Gallup organization based in the United Arab Emirates has just published, in partnership with their U.S. based colleagues, the results of a major polling that compares the attitudes of Muslim Americans to Americans of other faiths. Its title is 'Examining U.S. Muslims' Political, Social, and Spiritual Engagement 10 Years After September 11,' and its most attention grabbing finding is the fact that Muslim Americans are more likely than Christians or Jews to believe that targeting and killing civilians is never justified, whether it is done by the military or an individual. Put another way, Christians and Jews are more comfortable with civilians being targeted and killed by a wide margin."

The report cited above revealed that in the U.S. 78% of Muslims but only 39% of Catholics, 38% of Protestants and 43% of Jews believe that it is never justified for the military to kill civilians. Only 21% of Muslims, but a clear majority of Catholics, Protestants and Jews, believe that it is “sometimes justified” to kill civilians.
When the poll replaced the military with “an individual person or a small group of persons” 89% of Muslims, 71% of both Catholics and Protestants and 75% of Jews said the killings were “never justified."


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/a-fascinating-look-at-the-political-views-of-muslim-americans/242975/