Take a poll on the poll

Off to a great start. Standings as of this time (I'm guessing no need to calculate percentages at least at this stage?):

Are the mainstream media doing enough to report on the threat of radical Islam in the U.S.?
Yes 941
No 47,101

Do you think the mainstream media have a more favorable view of Islam than Christianity?
Yes 42,331
No 5,437

Do you think the mainstream media are intentionally refusing to report on the rise of radical Islam?
Yes 45,305
No 2,483

Do you think radical Muslims will practice suicide bombings in the U.S. in the near future?
Yes 45,701
No 1,978

Do you think our government should do more to appease the demands of radical Muslims?
Yes 3,250
No 44,713

Wow! The numbers really went up since I took the survey this morning. I hope they plan to forward this to every Congressman and Senator we've got.

gary, what good's that gonna do? they haven't listened to all the citizens in an uproar over the amnesty bill...why would they pay attention to this?

Good Point, Miss A. And anyway, the AFA is already highly ridiculed by most to the Left of Lieberman, so... Comprehensioin will likely dawn on these politicians in the form bomb shrapnel.

Miss_Anthrope,
Because if American civilians are ripped apart for Allah, people will ram this survey up the ass of every Congressman and Senator and cure them of their ADD.

LOL, I agree, Quantum Infidel!

But I just wish I knew exactly HOW MANY were deep down like us.

I alternate between an optimist and cynic HOURLY thinking this one thought...

"Wow! The numbers really went up since I took the survey this morning. I hope they plan to forward this to every Congressman and Senator we've got.
Posted by: Gary [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 1, 2007 12:50 PM "

Not to mention, "every Congressman and Senator they've got." With apologies to Gary for word smithing his comment.

An analysis of the poll from the point of view of experimental economics is here:

Pew Research Poll Flaws: Muslim Americans: Middle Class

When they paid 25 dollars to take the poll, US Muslims stopped answering in the middle, when the questions switched from complaining about discrimination after 9-11 to saying they don't support al Qaeda and terrorism. To get the money you have to give your name and address, so its essentially a forced no.

Pew found by experiment, they couldn't get the 1000 or so usable responses they needed with the coerced no's starting from 60,000 contacts if they paid 25, they needed to pay 50. They discovered that in the middle, because they had to increase the payment to 50 to get people to finish the poll past the point where the questions switched from complaining about discrimination to the forced pro forma answers of saying no to al Qaeda and terrorism.

Well, whoopty doo, I finally did something right. I got 100% on the test. And I did it without being brainwashed by Bush, Algore or any other political deva. I have asked before, what is in it for these people to engage us in their own forms of taqiyya?
What is the payoff when they can see the public is catching up with them, and they are painting themselves into a corner? Yet they doggedly do all the things negative in that poll, and more...I think they are on a downhill run to credibility suicide, which means they can only maintain this BS before the jig is up. It's already up with the 50,000 or so
who voted with the majority. Most of the people who voted get their news and info primarilly from the internet, now we need to poll the rest of the public. I bet the results would be similar...MSM...are you listening???

Speaking of the MSM's news coverage. What ever happened with the last two missing US soldiers kidnapped in May? They reported finding one in the river. I expect the others have been found as well but in a condition that doesn't reflect well on the religion of peace. It seems they've shifted from that story to the Brit soldiers instead.

Abrog8...there was a story with gory pictures of finding two US servicmens body's. Tortured and beheaded I believe. I cant remember the source, but I did see it...

Thanks swami... this is the last I've seen on it.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/23/news/search.php?page=1

I present below the percentages, which I've calculated (and double-checked), after just having taken the poll a few minutes ago:

Are the mainstream media doing enough to report on the threat of radical Islam in the U.S.?
Yes 1,024 No 51,912 tot 52936

Yes 1.93441%

Do you think the mainstream media have a more favorable view of Islam than Christianity?
Yes 46,626 No 5,999 tot 52625

No 11.39953%

Do you think the mainstream media are intentionally refusing to report on the rise of radical Islam?
Yes 49,944 No 2,711 tot 52655

No 5.14861%

Do you think radical Muslims will practice suicide bombings in the U.S. in the near future?
Yes 50,360 No 2,173 tot 52533

No 4.13645%

Do you think our government should do more to appease the demands of radical Muslims?
Yes 3,566 No 49,276 tot 52842

Yes 6.74842%

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Note that the totals are not uniform, which indicates that some small percentage of responses are being missed unevenly across questions (for whatever reason, human or technical). Probably not a major concern, given those are tiny percentages.

well, that's just great to see so many ostriches taking this poll...

although not as many as i suspect there are.

The AFA has had some success in the past with boycotts- they petition the advertisers, flood them with letters, and voila! Advertisers threaten to cut their sponsorship and suddenly the offending body does the right thing. They could be setting up specific MSM outlets for this type of action- not a bad thing, especially if it stops the pro-Muslim, anti-jihad slant of most of the media outlets in the U.S.

Are the mainstream media doing enough to report on the threat of radical Islam in the U.S.?
Yes 2.2 %
No 97.8 %
Do you think the mainstream media have a more favorable view of Islam than Christianity?
Yes 87.5%
No 12.5%
Do you think the mainstream media are intentionally refusing to report on the rise of radical Islam?
Yes 94.5%
No 5.5%
Do you think radical Muslims will practice suicide bombings in the U.S. in the near future?
Yes 95.7%
No 4.3%
Do you think our government should do more to appease the demands of radical Muslims?
Yes 7.4%
No 92.6%

Exactly! >.$.

What this poll clearly shows is the public are not as stupid as the MSM and Governments think. Encouraging.

Holy Smokes! Fry My Hide! Well, those old Americana expressions look as though they're turning into Islamic truths! ACK! How can ANYONE with even ZERO IQ favor Islam?! Everyone should be on guard these days before the RagHeads blow everything in the USA sky high! WHAT/WHO is driving the Media to this trechery? It is worse than criminal! Plain common sense, something severely lacking in MSM, alone would prevail! I'm proud soooooo many JW readers see the truth, and Thank God for Robert, Hugh and ALL the others such as Daniel Pipes', who's article of yesterday is to eye-opening! THEY are the ones we need to outlaw Islam!!!!! THEY are the only souls in the USA brave enough or with enough common sense to see reality!

This news is encouraging. Our governments, media, and many academics (especially in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies departments) may be fooled by the common Islamic apologetics, but the general public has a healthy level of concern. Let's continue to work so that their healthy level of concern is fed by frank and accurate factual information about Islam--particularly those aspects of Islam which are of greatest concern to our safety, security, freedoms, and moral values.