Get a load of these new poll results, and keep in mind that this was all self-inflicted by the Ground Zero mosque imam who is bound and determined to provoke Americans by building an unwanted mosque so close to the sacred grounds where innocent Americans were slaughtered by jihadists following the Islamic teachings of the Koran.
From the Washington Post, via Weasel Zippers:
Most Americans object to planned Islamic center near Ground Zero, poll finds
"Most Americans say the planned Muslim community center and place of worship should not be built in Lower Manhattan, with the sensitive locale being their overwhelming objection, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Two-thirds of those polled object to the prospective Cordoba House complex near the site of the former twin towers, including a slim majority who express strongly negative views. Eighty-two percent of those who oppose the construction say it's because of the location, although 14 percent (9 percent of all Americans) say they would oppose such building anywhere in the country.
The new results come alongside increasingly critical public views of Islam: 49 percent of all Americans say they have generally unfavorable opinions of Islam, compared with 37 percent who say they have favorable ones. That's the most negative split on the question in Post-ABC polls dating to October 2001.
Nearly a third of all Americans see mainstream Islam as encouraging violence, little changed from recent years. More, a slim majority, say it's a peaceful religion.
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Overall, 83 percent of Republicans oppose the Muslim center, as do 65 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats. Among Republicans, generally negative views have spiked higher: 67 percent of those who identify as Republican say they have unfavorable views of Islam, up from 42 percent in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Big majorities of Protestants and Catholics are against it, with opposition peaking among white evangelical Protestants. By contrast, most people with no professed religion support the construction."
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Why would anybody have an unfavorable opinion of people or religion that tortures, mutilates, stones and murders women and children for insignificant crimes (honor killings) ect.
I don't endorse a homosexual lifestyle, but, most Muslims have no tolerance for the homosexual lifestyle and in most Islamic countries the penalty is death.
Yet, the homosexuals see Christianity as their adversary instead of Islam.
Go figure.
So what does it say that "49% of Americans Have an Unfavorable View of Islam"? Who cares about popularity polls on topics like this? Nobody says you have to view ANY religion favorably. Nobody's trying to convert you Religious Rightwingnuts to Islam.
Does it give you comfort to know that, apparently, almost half of America is as stupid and prejudiced as you are? Does that "prove" something in your narrow little minds?
I'm a Christian, not a Muslim. That's my choice. Most Americans have made a similar choice. But I don't have a obsession with demonizing all Muslims, just so I can feel more comfortable in the choice I made. How secure are you in the decision YOU made for yourself, if you have to denigrate everyone that thinks differently than you? What does THAT say about your faith, or lack of faith?
DiogenASS:No, you and the left don't have an obsession with demonizing all Muslims.
You and the left just demonizes all Christians!
So, take your bigot finger pointing and stick those fingers where the sun don’t shine, thumbsucker.
No, sorry, but you're wrong yet again, AnonyMouse.I don't demonize all Christians. I just dislike the Religious Rightwingnut brand of pseudo-christians. They distort beyond recognition the true message of Jesus with their anti-poor, anti-black, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, and anti-anti political positions.
If Jesus came backtoday, He'd be unable to recognize what the Religious Rightwingnuts have done to His message. He'd be turning over all sorts of tables at Focus on the Family and the RNC.
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