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Only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Muslims, down from 35 percent in 2010

Jul 30, 2014 7:26 am By Robert Spencer

Boston-Marathon-Bombings-More-Questions-Than-Answers-1024x625This article decries the conflation of Arabs and Muslims and yet aids and abets it by lumping Arabs and Muslims together in the headline and throughout the piece. Yet it also correctly notes that most Arabs in the U.S. are not Muslims and most Muslims worldwide are not Arabs. Bringing Arabs into the poll at all is an attempt to further the false Leftist/Islamic supremacist claim that criticism of Islamic jihad terror and supremacism is nothing more than racism.

Anyway, “Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby, attributed worsening attitudes to negative news about Arabs and Muslims.” Note the careful language. Jim Zogby is not saying that people have a negative view of Muslims because of the increasing violence and virulence of jihad terror groups around the world, but because of negative news about Muslims. The implication is that if foes of jihad terror were silenced, people would no longer have negative views of Muslims. Zogby is once again attempting to propagate a sleight-of-hand common among Islamic supremacists: when Islamic jihadists commit violence and justify it by referring to the Qur’an and Muhammad, and then non-Muslims report on their words and deeds, the non-Muslims, not the jihadis, are held at fault. This has been the stance of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for years: it decries the “linking of Islam with terrorism,” and then pretends that non-Muslims, not Islamic jihadists, are doing the linking. Its goal is to silence those non-Muslim critics so that the jihad can advance unopposed, unhindered, and unchallenged.

“American opinion of Arabs, Muslims is getting worse: poll,” by Mary Wisniewski, Reuters, July 29, 2014:

(Reuters) – How Americans view Arabs and Muslims has gotten worse in recent years, with negative feelings strongest among Republicans and senior citizens, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

Only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Muslims, down from 35 percent in 2010, according to the Zogby poll, commissioned by the non-profit Arab American Institute. Favorable attitudes toward Arabs dropped to 32 percent from 43 percent in 2010.

The poll also found that 42 percent of respondents believe an American Muslim’s religion would influence his or her decision making in an important government job. The same percentage believe it is justified for law enforcement to profile Arab Americans or American Muslims.

“For me, the biggest concern in the poll is not just that people don’t like us, but what not liking us translates to,” said Institute president Jim Zogby, who is of Lebanese descent. He said attitudes towards profiling and Arabs and Muslims in government posts “affect our ability to function as communities here.”

Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby, attributed worsening attitudes to negative news about Arabs and Muslims.

The poll also found sharp partisan, racial and generational divides.

For example, 59 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of people 65 or older agree with profiling Arab Americans or Arab Muslims, compared with 32 percent of Democrats and the 18-29 age group. Only 29 percent of non-whites favor profiling, compared with 47 percent of whites.

Zogby noted that many Americans falsely conflate Arab and Muslim communities, assuming that most Arab Americans are Muslim, when less than a third are, and that most American Muslims are Arab, when less then a quarter are.

At least 3.5 million Americans are of Arab descent, of which the largest portion, or 27 percent, are Lebanese, followed by Arabic, Egyptian, Syrian and Somali, according to the Institute’s website.

The poll surveyed 1,110 likely voters in late June, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 7:31 am

    So there are still 27% morons living in the country. You can take out about 1 or 2% who are Muslims themselves, so at least 25% of our population is just plain stupid about Muslims – Ah ignorance is bliss until the next big disaster!!

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 8:18 am

      The total 2013 U.S. census was about 315 M people.

      The numbers of Muslims I’ve seen are rising rapidly in the U.S. compared to other groups in the overall population. (Also the many new babies in my neighborhood.) One source (American Muslim Council) as early as 1992 said 5M Muslims then in U.S., and talked about the difficulty of getting an exact number [big surprise in a culture of taqiyya/kitman], e.g., http://www.islam101.com/history/population2_usa.html

      Maybe American Muslim Council skews upward for reasons weirdly like Hamas being prideful about bigger numbers. Or maybe the U.S. Census skews downward or excludes some head counts for reasons top honchos could rationalize and paper over internally (sampling error bias, statistical mumbo jumbo) that are really designed not to alarm those concerned about Trojan Horse Islamic Jihad.

      Here’s what Pew Research says about Muslims in U.S. [my comments bracketed]:

      “The Muslim population in the United States is projected to more than double in the next 20 years, from nearly 2.6 million in 2010 [U.S. Census figures] to about 6.2 million in 2030, in large part because of immigration and higher-than-average fertility among Muslims [aka virtual enslavement of women as breeding stock for baby jihadists-in-training, thus no birth control].

      Within two decades, the United States is expected to have the 43rd largest Muslim population in the world (in absolute numbers), up from 55th place in 2010. By 2030, the U.S. is projected to have a larger number of Muslims than any European country other than Russia (which is expected to have 19 million Muslims by 2030) and France (which is expected to have 6.9 million Muslims in 2030). By comparison, the United Kingdom and Germany are each projected to have nearly 5.6 million Muslims in 2030.

      By 2030, Muslims are expected to account for 1.7% of the total U.S. population, up from 0.8% in 2010. [Note other online sources are saying 1.7 % now.] If current trends continue, Muslims may constitute as large a share of the U.S. population as either Jews or Episcopalians do today.”

      • Peter Buckley says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 11:44 am

        These demographic predictions have one HUGE weakness: they are based on the assumption that mass immigration from muslim countries will continue unabated.
        While that may happen in the US, here in UK the “no more, please we’re full” signs are going up all over the country. Hence the popularity of UKIP.
        Expect immigration (from anywhere) to be drastically reduced in the near future.
        Also these predictions don’t factor-in the increasing number of muslims who will apostasize.

        • JIMJFOX says

          Jul 30, 2014 at 3:47 pm

          Muslim breeding will be a bigger threat than immigration- how ya gonna stop that??

        • Peter Buckley says

          Jul 30, 2014 at 4:57 pm

          The muslim birth-rate is another myth:

          http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/27/us-muslims-population-idUSTRE70Q68E20110127

      • Brian Hoff says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 3:10 pm

        The Pew only count muslim who attend firday prayer at the mosque on than regular basic as muslim that isnot how muslim define who is than muslim. Where I live there is about 5000 muslim while the mosque can only hold about 800 to than 1000 muslim on than edi day event.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 3:10 pm

        The Pew only count muslim who attend firday prayer at the mosque on than regular basic as muslim that isnot how muslim define who is than muslim. Where I live there is about 5000 muslim while the mosque can only hold about 800 to than 1000 muslim on than edi day event.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 3:10 pm

        The Pew only count muslim who attend firday prayer at the mosque on than regular basic as muslim that isnot how muslim define who is than muslim. Where I live there is about 5000 muslim while the mosque can only hold about 800 to than 1000 muslim on than edi day event.

    • el-cid says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 6:00 pm

      Yes, but the word is getting out despite the press trying to shut it down.

      Some nuance is needed out there. People must recognize the emergence of a Islamic Fascist ideology and demand that any self-identifying Muslim fight against it along with us. Otherwise, they are the enemy.

      We need to see more Muslims agree at organizations like CAIR that are promoting the fascist agenda at every opportunity and engage in lawfare to shut up their critics.

  2. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 7:33 am

    PUBLIC NOTICE.

    OFFTOPIC but important.

    Paging all Aussie jihadwatchers.

    This is a shoutout/ message to all Aussie jihadwatchers lurking or posting here as of today’s date, 30 July (Aussie time) 2014.

    There will be a march/ rally in Sydney, NSW, Australia on Saturday August 2 to express solidarity with the persecuted and subjected-to-genocidal jihad indigenous Christians of Iraq.

    Details here:

    http://www.auscma.com/?p=2784

    “We call on Australian Christians of all denominations, human rights activists, media, elected officials, and all individuals concerned about the welfare of Iraq’s imperiled minorities to attend this protest and rally in support of these beleaguered communities. We also urge people to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi Christians and to communicate this protest to their friends, colleagues, sympathetic individuals, churches and other relevant organisations, whether through mass, meetings or online social media.”

    Jihadwatchers who live in or near Sydney or will be in Sydney on that day can surely get to the rally. It needs to be as large as possible.

    (Same deal as any pro-Israel rallies, which *also* need to be happening everywhere; they need to be BIG, so that politicians, looking on, can draw conclusions about where the Votes are likely to be. And they must also be peaceful and in conformity with the law of the land. The police, who have the job of trying to rein in the near-rioting mohammedan hatefests, will quickly learn the difference between *those* and the pro-Christian and pro-Israel rallies, and they will start to draw the obvious conclusions, even if only privately among themselves).

    If you attend a *church* in Sydney, tell your priest, pastor or minister and suggest that he and the *entire congregation* attend.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 7:43 am

      Thing I would like to see:

      The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney (which is a strongly Evangelical diocese) and *all* his Bishops attending this rally and march on behalf of the persecuted Christians of Iraq…and let’s remember the Syrian Christians, also. And right beside them, Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop, George Pell, and all *his* Bishops.

      Thing that would be *awesome*…if, at dawn, on the day of this rally, the bells of St Mary’s Cathedral began to solemnly toll, and likewise the bells of St Andrew’s Cathedral, and of every other church in metropolitan and suburban Sydney; and continued, hour after hour, all day, until sunset, in memory and honour of all the Saints, Martyrs and Confessors of the Church in Mesopotamia and Assyria. And as a call to prayer, and a wake-up call.

      I think I shall suggest that to both Archbishops, in a brief communicaton, tomorrow.

    • Mary_Gonzales says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 8:20 am

      Please…Please do that. please support the Christian in Iraq. They need your voice Australia. They are actually one of the most oppressed people on this earth. As i live as a minority, i can feel what they feel. Really thanks to the Kurdish government and their people to open the door for the christian refugees. God bless Kurdistan.
      In this globe, who offer asylum to them is French only, how come???

      Iraq will be zero christian, the first time since the country exist in middle east. Just similar by what many countries in middle east been doing. They can do that legally for religion reason. I think human rights body of UN, should be disbanded for they are useless.

  3. Mary_Gonzales says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 7:55 am

    Could be the leftist and the atheist. I don’t blame them, that’s private right. But they should understand WHY they can stand and proudly declare their atheism and support opinion. But once the country become an islamic rule, no doubt those atheist put on waiting list to convert or beheaded (many people think this is a joke).

    • shrugger says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 11:11 am

      As an atheist myself. I can state without equivocation that Leftists are not atheists. If you ever attempt debate with a Leftist, their blind religious faith and fervor will quickly become evident . Their church is conformity and their infallible God is The State.

      Like a certain other fundie religion we’re all familiar with. Should you challenge their faith in the slightest by having a differing opinion from that of Leftists. You must be utterly destroyed to keep their unwavering belief intact.
      Childish name calling, threats, and eventual violence. Does this sound familiar?

      • Mary_Gonzales says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 12:56 pm

        I am sorry sir with my words. I just say could be. I am not blaming anybody. it is our choice to be or not to be. Could be christian it self who has that favorable opinion. I just hope there is nothing bad happen to america, it will cause bad to the world.

      • Western Canadian says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 1:00 pm

        “Childish name calling, threats, and eventual violence. Does this sound familiar?”

        Sounds like every atheist government and association I have ever observed…..

        • shrugger says

          Jul 30, 2014 at 3:17 pm

          See now, you’re confusing Atheist with Leftist. It’s understandable, they’ve purposely obfuscated quite a few things. I’ll let you in on an open secret. Almost all of us are not Asshat Proselytizers to our lack of religiosity. And we do run the entire Political spectrum.
          If you want to know me, I’m a Conservative Independent, an Iraq Veteran, Hunter and Gun nut, Believer in the Rule of (Just) Law, and a supporter of the TEA Party. I’m simply not a Christian or any of that.

          Toward Liberals vs Leftists. They too are absolutely not the same thing.
          Though I only rarely agree with Liberals. I can still respect their views. There is absolutely nothing respectable about Leftists.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:51 pm

      Why don’t you shut the f**K up about atheists? I as an atheist would attend any rally opposing Islam whether religiously motivated or not; so, again, shut you mouth, religious bigot.

      • shrugger says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 4:22 pm

        There’s no need to be mean. Educating works much better than angry rants.
        Same goes when it comes to explaining Mohammadens to the uninformed.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:52 pm

      Why don’t you shut the f**K up about atheists? I as an atheist would attend any rally opposing Islam whether religiously motivated or not; so, again, shut your mouth, religious bigot.

    • No Fear says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 3:35 am

      I am atheist and I despise Islam. I am sympathetic to all people who use religion as a tool for self improvement in regards to their moral attitudes to others. I detest people who use religion as a political weapon and an excuse for controlling others, hence my dislike for Islam.

  4. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 7:57 am

    Now, on-topic.

    “Only 27 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Muslims, down from 35 percent in 2010..”.

    That *is* interesting.

    In four years, Islamoleeriness has jumped by 8 percentage points. And *that* is in spite of the appeasing attitude of the President and his cronies, and in despite of the nonstop barrage of Islamophile propaganda at every level.

    And although old codgers seem to be leading the way so far, I think I see harbingers of things to come, in the shape of posters here such as “Curious Teenager” (not *all* young people have been fooled or need remain fooled even if they start out that way), or Arjay (not all Native Americans are listening to the dawa artists) or black Americans such as Friend of Zion Chloe Valdary and that intelligent and brave jihad-aware old soldier, Allen West (not *all* black Americans are fooled by dawa, either).

    I do kinda wonder, too, about all the soldiers, whether younger or older, men who’ve seen Islam and Muslims up close and personal in Iraq and Afghanistan; not all of them will have swallowed the BS, some will have formed their own opinions…unfavourable opinions, realistic opinions…and will be sharing those with the members of their social circle. I’ll *bet* that right now a lot of those men are following the news re Israel and Gaza and **sympathising with and rooting for their Infidel brothers in the IDF**…because they have had to fight fanatical treacherous wild-eyed jihadis under *exactly* the same impossible ROE and in a landscape loaded with death-traps. I bet they see those K-9 units trotting into the dark labyrinth with their IDF handlers and think of their own faithful K-9s who saved them from bombs and ambushes.

    Y’know, there’s a ways to go yet, but *I* would say that the tide is beginning to turn. Or, to borrow a phrase from a character in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, “Wind is changing!”

    • Brian Hoff says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      I rarely trust any polls. First I walk round wearing than Islamist t-shirt and hat than people are nice to me. The media is trying to add fuel to the fire so to speack. Many people like muslim or are quit about muslim. Where I live the local people really hate the tea party and the GOP party.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      I rarely trust any polls. First I walk round wearing than Islamist t-shirt and hat than people are nice to me. The media is trying to add fuel to the fire so to speack. Many people like muslim or are quit about muslim. Where I live the local people really hate the tea party and the GOP party.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      I rarely trust any polls. First I walk round wearing than Islamist t-shirt and hat than people are nice to me. The media is trying to add fuel to the fire so to speack. Many people like muslim or are quit about muslim. Where I live the local people really hate the tea party and the GOP party.

  5. Diane Harvey says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 8:05 am

    Leftists have no problem equating so-called Zionists with Israelis with Jews worldwide.

    • shrugger says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:33 pm

      Yes, what they really mean when they say they hate Zionists is that they hate Jews.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 8:08 am

    What is Muslims opinion of “us”

    Just open a Qur’an
    or listen closely to the shahada

  7. islamforbids.com says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 8:11 am

    I doubt they polled any who have recently gone through Government Schools, They are hopelessly in the bag for diversity and Islamic supremacy, Tu Queqea is what’s for dinner when you meet and talk to them .

  8. Jay Boo says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 10:40 am

    27 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Muslims
    Coincidentally
    27 percent of Americans have their heads stuck up their asses.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 3:54 pm

      NIcely put, JB

  9. Jay Boo says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 10:46 am

    The photo of the Boston bombing is the same location where Allahu Akbar shouting Muslims chose to have their support Palestine (Hamas) condemnation against Israel.
    These are the kind of hateful shameless self-entitlement Muslims that inhabit mush of Islam.

  10. Wellington says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 11:07 am

    I see progress here. If 27% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Muslims this means that 73% do not. This latter percentage represents a huge majority of Americans. Also, just four years ago, according to Zogby, 35% of Americans had a favorable opinion of Muslims and so things are moving in the correct direction.

    Islam can’t help showing what it’s really about and Americans (and many others in the West) have only just begun over the past decade or so assessing Islam and Muslims in any serious, consistent way. America is such an open society and tolerance of other peoples’ religious beliefs has a long tradition in America (with bumps along the way of course) and thus it is understandable that it will take some time for the vast majority of Americans to conclude that, Holy Hell, mankind really did produce a major religion which is rotten to its core. Gettin’ there.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 11:48 am

      Wellington
      Your hopeful words are encouraging.
      But this is bound to attract ‘v’ with some rain clouds.

      • Wellington says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 12:28 pm

        It’s still a long road ahead, Jay Boo, but I see a bright horizon in the distance. Long term it is my conviction that Islam will eventually be seen in America and all the West pretty much as Nazism and Marxism have come to be seen.

        Yes, there will still be fools (particularly academic fools) who will make excuses for man’s worst religion of all time, but this won’t stop Islam from being looked upon by the vast majority as a warped belief system that only the confused, the ignorant and the malevolent adhere to.

        What particularly interests me is how the law in one Western nation after another will have to change somewhat in order to no longer treat Islam in a religiously neutral way. New ground here will have to be explored I think.

        Hope you and yours are doing well, Jay Boo. Now back to the fight, eh?

        • Jay Boo says

          Jul 31, 2014 at 12:55 am

          There are so many great articles and formidable commenters on this website, Wellington that Islam façade is bound wear down.
          Soon, many Muslims will be asking themselves “What was I thinking” when the begin to see the futility and emptiness of Islam.
          For example, Muslims take such pride in their supposed ‘willpower’ to fast during Ramadan but they are so insecure that they will kill other Muslims who don’t fast in order to intimidate. That in turn is not much of a pious self-sacrifice of fasting when the threat of actually being murdered for not fasting is a consequence. What psychos!

  11. Meshulam says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 11:43 am

    My opinion of Arabs and Moslems hasn’t changed at all in the cited time period, or for that matter since the late 1970s and early 1980s when I traveled and lived amongst them in “their” part of the world.

    The 27% figure is unsurprising considering who produced the poll. I wonder how the questions were presented. My guess is that significantly over-represents actual opinion in the U.S.A.

  12. TheLastStraw says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 11:47 am

    The numbers are heading in the right direction, people are waking up and paying attention. Muslims can no longer hide behind “racism” seeing that Islam is not a race, but a way of life (a complete Theocracy)-muslims come in ALL races, not just arab. People now have access to news from other countries and they are seeing what is going on in other countries- like France and the petrol bombings and extremely violent riots by muslim youth, the UK and the VERY public beheading of a UK soldier!!!! and their gradual implementation of Shariah law upon non-muslim people; Australia and the “honor” killings, Scandinavia now being the Jihad rape capital of the world, Africa (various countries) specializing in genocide &kidnap.

    The numbers that support are going down, and that is a good thing.

  13. wildjew says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    “The poll also found that 42 percent of respondents believe an American Muslim’s religion would influence his or her decision making in an important government job……”

    Where was that 42 percent when Barack HusseinObama was given an important government job.

  14. Tradewinds says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    Gee, I wonder why Americans can’t stand Muslims. That’s a tough one.

  15. Brian Hoff says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    Poll can be misleading on Long Island in poll than black person was all set to win than election but lost. 75% of the white people poll lie about who they will vote for to to not be called racist for voteing for the white person. People hear bad remart about muslim and Islam who are mender of the GOP and Tea Party so they tell the poll taker what they want to hear.

  16. Brian Hoff says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    Poll can be misleading on Long Island in poll than black person was all set to win than election but lost. 75% of the white people poll lie about who they will vote for to to not be called racist for voteing for the white person. People hear bad remart about muslim and Islam who are mender of the GOP and Tea Party so they tell the poll taker what they want to hear.

    • Wellington says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 5:24 pm

      And whence did you get that statistic of 75%? Cite your source.

      What’s ironic, though it will go over your head, is that Islam has a far sorrier and far longer record of black slavery than does the Judeo-Christian world. Moreover, the Judeo-Christian world has apologized profusely for black slavery while Islam, in typical never-apologize-for-anything mode, has never acknowledged it’s sorry-ass record on the matter of black slavery. In fact, but for the Western, Judeo-Christian world, black slavery (and slavery in general) would still be going on in the Islamic world.

      Wait, I forgot, that unofficially it still very much is. In fact, many Muslim clerics still argue to this day that as Muslims conquer more of the dar-al-harb (ain’t gonna’ happen though) they have a right to enslave the non-believer. Disgusting but very Islamic.

  17. Richie says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    If you are parents, take a look at your kids history school books. Some of the new textbooks are rife with pro Islam propaganda. many adults know what Islam is all about, so Muslims are trying to feed propaganda on school children.
    Robert gives great examples in his book ‘Stealth Jihad’.

  18. Jeff says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    To be asked to tolerate the intolerant is pure folly. Islam is a bully and freedom of conscience is its greatest victim.

  19. Badbob says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 11:50 pm

    That’s a strange coincidence that’s the same % that believe the earth is flat like Muslims.

  20. No Fear says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 3:30 am

    I invite all muslims to leave Islam.

  21. Jon says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 4:34 am

    I’m happy with calling terrorists non-Muslim.
    “Terrorist? The nope, can’t be a Muslim.”

  22. voegelinian says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    “[John] Zogby grew up in Utica, New York, the son of Lebanese Catholic immigrants. His brother, James Zogby, is the founder of the Arab American Institute, and is also an independent pollster and Senior Analyst with Zogby Analytics.”

    Thus we see not so much a problem of PC MC, but of dhimmi reflexes.

  23. mike ryan says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    As a teacher working in an elementary school, I can attest that our social studies texts are riddled with pro-Islamic propaganda.

    Where the issue is addressed as part of world history in the sixth grade, middle school level, and high school, it is given an excruciatingly nauseating roseate glaze that defies logic.

    Christianity and its effect on Western Civilization is shoved off until the final chapters (usually not reached by year’s end).

    In the sixth grade texts, a lot of time is wasted on the “brilliant” achievements of the likes of Mansa Musa as the “great” West African Muslim king. NO mention of his slaving raids; no mention of the Muslim connection to the international slave trade. And why should their be? I can state emphatically that the impression is made that those in control of what our children read seem to be motivated by a hatred of Western Civilization and an apparent desire to trace all things unpleasant and evil to European civilizations while making Islam and Muslims out to be brilliant and progressive.

    I fill in the gaping chasm and skip the propaganda. One junior high student intuitively asked one of my colleagues: “Why to we have to spend so much time learning about Islam?” Brilliant boy. I’d put him at the top of my class.

  24. mike ryan says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    As a teacher working in an elementary school, I can attest that our social studies texts are riddled with pro-Islamic propaganda.

    Where the issue is addressed as part of world history in the sixth grade, middle school level, and high school, it is given an excruciatingly nauseating roseate glaze that defies logic.

    Christianity and its effect on Western Civilization is shoved off until the final chapters (usually not reached by year’s end).

    In the sixth grade texts, a lot of time is wasted on the “brilliant” achievements of the likes of Mansa Musa as the “great” West African Muslim king. NO mention of his slaving raids; no mention of the Muslim connection to the international slave trade. And why should their be? I can state emphatically that the impression is made that those in control of what our children read seem to be motivated by a hatred of Western Civilization and an apparent desire to trace all things unpleasant and evil to European civilizations while making Islam and Muslims out to be brilliant and progressive.

    I fill in the gaping chasm and skip the propaganda. One junior high student intuitively asked one of my colleagues: “Why to we have to spend so much time learning about Islam?” Brilliant boy. I’d put him at the top of my class.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 2, 2014 at 8:30 am

      You wrote, re. your work as a teacher in upper primary school, “I fill in the gaping chasm and skip the propaganda.”

      Great job! Lucky kids to have you as a well-informed and clear-headed teacher…and lucky parents.

      Have you been in touch with ACT for America? I know they’ve been putting in a lot of work challenging the dodgy / propaganda-riddled textbooks.

      If you’ve got black kids in your class…tell them about Saint Josephina Bakhita. Her story opens up a window on Arab/ Arabised Muslim slave-raiding in black Africa.

      Another thing to do is to look up the Christian kingdoms of Abyssinia and Nubia. Abyssinia is the ancestor of today’s Ethiopia; they managed to remain Christian in the midst of a hostile Muslim sea. They had to fight like lions. The story of Christian Abyssinia/ Ethiopia – which has a *fascinating* culture – would provide a good counterweight to the glorification of the Muslim gang bosses.

      Nubia, too, was Christian until the 17th century when it was finally overwhelmed and Islamised. Might be interesting to see what you could find out about the history of *Christian* Nubia, 4th Century-16th century.

      Further thought: you might try to slip a copy of C S Forester’s “The Barbary Pirates” into the school library, for the older kids. I’d say an intelligent 6th or 7th-grader (do you have grade 7? we do in Australia) would understand it. It’s clearly written and accurate and an easy read.

      The trick is to get people *thinking*, make them curious. I do like your story of the smart kid who had *noticed* the undue emphasis on Islam.

      (Of course, in a sane world, the answer to the kid’s question would be: “Because we have to know as much as possible about the Enemy and how he thinks”).

  25. Billy Bob says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    I dislike Muslims more than most people do, so I think that the percent who see them favorably should be about 23. Besides, the present 27% consist of 20% Muslims, and I don’t like them either.

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