Muslim Americans are far less likely than other Americans to support any kinds of attacks on civilians, according to a Gallup Poll out yesterday.
When interviewed, 78 percent of the 475 Muslim Americans in the study firmly believed that military attacks on civilians were never justified.
Besides Americans with no religious affiliation, no other group (Mormon, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) had even a majority of their people vote the same way. And 89 percent of Muslim Americans believe citizen-on-citizen attacks are never OK.
Of those polled, 92 percent believe their fellow Muslims living in this country are not sympathetic to the al Qaeda terrorist organization.
Those figures are also significantly higher than the results for the rest of the American population.
— Justin Gitlin
When interviewed, 78 percent of the 475 Muslim Americans in the study firmly believed that military attacks on civilians were never justified.
Besides Americans with no religious affiliation, no other group (Mormon, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) had even a majority of their people vote the same way. And 89 percent of Muslim Americans believe citizen-on-citizen attacks are never OK.
Of those polled, 92 percent believe their fellow Muslims living in this country are not sympathetic to the al Qaeda terrorist organization.
Those figures are also significantly higher than the results for the rest of the American population.
— Justin Gitlin
