REAL THREAT EXPOSED
LATEST PEW RESEARCH CONFIRMS HATRED FOR WESTERNERS
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On December 2, 2010, the Pew Research Center released the results of a new poll of seven Muslim countries – - Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey – - that substantiate claims that 10% of Muslims worldwide support al-Qaeda and sanction terrorist attacks against American soldiers and civilians.
But the true figure of Muslims in these countries who support radical Islam might be substantially higher since the pollsters could not conduct their research in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, where al Qaeda and the Taliban. Moreover, the pollsters avoided such hotbeds of Islamic terrorism as Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
The new Pew poll shows the following percentages of support for al-Qaeda: 34 percent of Jordanians, 49 percent of Nigerian Muslims, 3 percent of Lebanese, 20 percent of Egyptians, 23 percent of Indonesians, 18 percent of Pakistanis, and 4 percent of Turks.
Translated into real numbers, the findings are staggering: 129,942,000 Muslims in just six Islamic countries support al-Qaeda. The present world population of Muslims is estimated at 1.2 billion, giving credence to reports that more than 10% of Islamists support universal jihad.
A 2007 Pew Poll on American Muslims revealed that 75,000 American Muslims supported al-Qaeda and 120,000 American Muslims believed that bombings against civilians in the defense of Islam are justified.
The findings of the two polls may be used to show that Islamophobia is not an irrational mental condition.
The Pew report coincides with an al-Qaeda video distributed on October 23, 2010. In it, al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn airs al-Qaeda’s poor view of the majority of Muslims. According to Gadahn, one part of the global Muslim community is apostate; another is victim to lustful, worldly influences; and a third (perhaps largest) portion has lost the ability to think for themselves, allowing clerics to turn them against al-Qaeda and the jihad.
Gadahn and other leaders of the mujahadeen should take heart in the latest findings.
As the December 2010 WikiLeaked cables reveal, no nation has been able to stem the tide of financial support to al-Qaeda, especially from wealthy donors in the Gulf region.
With attacks increasing against the homeland, and a new and vigorous media campaign underway to turn American Muslims into lone wolf attackers, it is exceedingly unlikely that the global jihad — or the direct threat it poses to the U.S. — will end any time soon.
Merry Christmas.