From: "Rich Gauszka" 

'By comparison, Muslims in France, Spain and Britain were almost twice as
likely to say suicide bombing is sometimes or often justified'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201463
.html

Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are
highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and
overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major,
nationwide random survey of Muslims.

The survey by the Pew Research Center found that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims
said the use of suicide bombings against civilian targets to defend Islam
is never justified. But 5 percent said it is justified "rarely,"
7 percent said "sometimes," and 1 percent said "often";
the remaining 9 percent said they did not know or declined to answer.

By comparison, Muslims in France, Spain and Britain were almost twice as
likely to say suicide bombing is sometimes or often justified, and public
acceptance of the tactic is even higher in some countries with large Muslim
populations, such as Nigeria, Jordan and Egypt.

Titled "Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream,"
the Pew report draws a picture of a diverse population of about 2.35
million U.S. Muslims, of which two-thirds of the adults were born abroad,
and which has a generally positive view of the larger society.

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