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to: Ad
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2007-04-20 08:37:14
subject: Re: Some interesting stats for the anti-muslim crowd

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Our Muslim populations are stable also. We have quite a large one in
Dearborn Michigan.   I would suspect that many who fled the insanity of the
Middle East would feel this way.

"Ad"  wrote in
message news:462858a2{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20421
>
> "Muslims in London not only have almost twice as much confidence in the
> government as the wider public, but greater faith in the police, judicial
> and electoral system, a poll suggested Tuesday.
>
> Pollsters Gallup also found that a greater proportion of Muslims living in
> the British capital renounced violence than did the general population,
> and a higher percentage felt a strong sense of loyalty towards Britain.
>
> Gallup’s released data suggest that media reports characterising the
> Muslim community as radicalised, alienated and disenfranchised may be wide
> of the mark.
>
> These results suggest that Britain's 1.56 million-strong Muslim community
> has a far more positive outlook."
>
> "- 81 percent of London Muslims said violence was completely unjustified,
> even if used in a "noble cause" compared to 72 percent of the general
> public.
>
> - 74 percent said they were loyal to Britain compared to 45 percent of
> non-Muslims.
>
> - 82 percent respected other religions, as opposed to 54 percent of the
> wider public.
>
> - 78 percent versus 69 percent had confidence in the police; for the
> government, judicial system and elections the figures were 64 percent vs
> 36 percent, 67 percent vs 55 percent and 73 percent vs 60 percent.
>
> But despite apparently more relaxed attitudes, Muslims in the capital were
> twice as likely than non-Muslims to say they had experienced racial or
> religious discrimination in the last year."
>
>
> Adam

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