HALF of ALL American Muslims believe Hamas has “valid” reasons for attacking Israel.
Roughly half of Muslims and atheists (49% each) say that regardless of how acceptable they find the way Hamas carried out the Oct. 7. attack, they think Hamas’ reasons for fighting Israel are valid. Just 8% of White evangelical Protestants share this view. Besides atheists, the other two groups that make up the religiously unaffiliated group (often called “nones”) are somewhat less likely to say Hamas has valid reasons for fighting: 42% of agnostics and 24% of those who identify religiously as “nothing in particular” say this. (Pew Research)
After 9/11, elected officials told us that Islam had nothing to do with terrorism. And that accusing Muslims of supporting Islamic terrorism was a dangerous bigotry they dubbed “Islamophobia.”
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In the decades since, the same speech has been delivered after every Islamic terror attack.
Now, as Muslims and leftists violently riot in support of Hamas, after Islamic groups and public figures from campus groups to the leader of the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the single largest and most influential American Muslim organization celebrated the October 7, 2023 atrocities we are not allowed to suggest that there is ANY support for terrorism amongst Muslims living in the Western world.
These polling numbers taken by one of the most accurate, respected and reputable polling firms in the world, are nonetheless VERY alarming. Immigration and national security policymakers throughout the Western world should take a sobering deep dive into this poll, and seriously reflect upon its potential implications.
Very few Americans (5%) say that the way Hamas carried out its Oct. 7 attack against Israel was acceptable, but a somewhat larger share (22%) view Hamas’ reasons for fighting Israel as valid.
Responding to a parallel set of questions about Israel, most Americans (58%) describe Israel’s reasons for fighting Hamas as valid, but the U.S. public is more divided over Israel’s conduct of the war. On balance, 38% say it is acceptable, while 34% say it is unacceptable. (The rest aren’t sure or decline to answer.) These figures include nearly identical shares of Americans who say the way Israel is responding to Hamas is completely acceptable (21%) and completely unacceptable (20%).
Views of the war and its key players vary greatly by age. For example, adults under 30 are more likely than older Americans to say Hamas has valid reasons for fighting Israel, and young U.S. adults express a more favorable view of the Palestinian people than of the Israeli people.
The rest of this chapter explores these topics in greater detail, highlighting key differences between political parties and religious groups.
How Hamas is fighting Israel
Some 5% of Americans say the way Hamas carried out its attack on Israel on Oct. 7 was completely or somewhat acceptable. Nearly three-quarters say it was unacceptable (73%), including 66% who consider it completely unacceptable. One-in-five are unsure whether Hamas’ actions were acceptable.
Relatively few Americans across the demographic and religious groups analyzed in this report consider the way Hamas carried out the Oct. 7 attack to be acceptable. But about one-in-five U.S. Muslims say it was acceptable, including 11% who describe it as somewhat acceptable and 10% who call it completely acceptable.
Why Hamas is fighting Israel
About one-in-five Americans say that regardless of how acceptable they find the way Hamas carried out the Oct. 7 attack, its reasons for fighting Israel are valid (22%), though just 6% say its reasons are completely valid.
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All such American Muslims hate for the Jewish people by is a very clear reminder that the former President, William Howard Taft, in a speech ,rightly and wisely, declared, “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Correct. Now, IF we could just find American patriots in OUR gov’t to grow some B_LLS, the world would be a better place.
Zeus
27 days ago
Some Muslims don’t know the doctrine they’re part of. This is by design.
Some Muslims pretend to oppose the doctrine they’re part of. This is by design.
Hatred of all Kafirs (non-Muslims, including Jews) is part of Islam and cannot be removed.
Terror is part of Islam and cannot be removed.
Sacrificing ourselves to protect or tolerate the ignorant Muslims is a self inflicted wound and slow death.
Islam is 100% incompatible with FREEDOM.
Rule by bloodlines is also 100% incompatible with FREEDOM. The old ruling bloodlines embraced Islam as a proxy army against FREEDOM and FREE PEOPLE.
If we were aware we would put “them” in cages, nooses and graves.
We’re all drugged up on deceptions.
gfmucci
27 days ago
And that’s just the half that admit it.
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Platinum Ghost
27 days ago
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated
Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever
known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an
American at all.”
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there
ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who
yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly
20 mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the
land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
excerpt from a speech by
Theodore Roosevelt
Address to the Knights of Columbus
New York City- October 12th, 1915
“American mozzlems”. That term alone is MESSED UP !!!!
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garry pollack
27 days ago
It is sooo Unacceptable…that it is even unacceptable to do it to someone who did it to somebody else… Savagery!
Jews for Jesus
27 days ago
A question I’d like to see asked is
Based on the boatload of former IDF videos stating “Oct 7th was a Jewish False Flag” & Why would they do that? … To raise Gaza to the ground for bigger Israel, then dig their own canal! Then get an Ad riddled alphabet site like this one to throw the non discerning off the stink of evil deception & reality … Hey, it kinda worked for 9/11 & The destruction of Iraq & Libya? Syria proved a problem when Putin stepped in the frame … Jus sayin
Sir 🤥
Which of these two verses of Christs words best describe the Genocide the world is witnessing?
Verse A)
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Do Dews love Jesus? What you wrote of me Talmud Dews wrote of Christ… So, you also reveal your father
Or
Verse B)
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. -John 8:44
JESUS ALSO SAID…
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. -John 8:43
Paula
27 days ago
Labor party is not saying anything against HAMAAS they need votes. Scared of Muslims not voting for them. Labor doesn’t care about Australia. Thanks alot! albo aleboneezy. Traitor. Israel is going to tell Australia to F* off.
The unprincipled pursuit of moslem votes is a factor, but so too is the hard-wired antisemitism of left wing zealots which makes many in the Labor Party hate Israel even if we had not allowed any into our country. A decision we are beginning to regret. It will get even worse when a moslem political party forms, as it will. At some point the survival of Australia will demand all moslems be removed. Better to do it now before their number grows even bigger. Stopping moslem immigration can slow that down, but their birth rate means there increasing influence is inevitable. Hard times need hard leaders making hard decisions.
Penny wong is supporting HAASS in the western suburbs. She’s a gay bitch. The MUSLIMS would kill her in a blink of an eye. She doESN’t know what she’s talking about. I’ve worked with Muslims sure their okay but they look down on you and would no sooner stab you in the back. They only care about their own race and would out breed any race. She’s gay. Muslims are not LBGTQI? Friendly. They dont abide by law. They only know to slaughter people.
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Stephen Honig
27 days ago
Islam has everything to do with Israel hate murder. The Koran’s author is no one else, but Mr. Satan. Like Satan is to God, Biden is to the country and Trump.
jobama is no Catholic and in cahoots with muslim obama is evil incarnate
turtlebrat
27 days ago
Islam is incompatible with civilized cultures and all of them that are in the U.S. – each and every one – must be deported immediately back to their hellhole countries where it would be easier to nuke em all into oblivion. Don’t believe for a minute that they would not do the same as they want to do to the Jews to all “infidels” – Christians, Hindus and all other non-muslims when the got the chance and convert by the sword or kill all non-believers. We must strike first to survive.
gfmucci
27 days ago
And the other half are keeping that fact to themselves.
Snowedin
26 days ago
There is no such thing as an American muslime as they do no assimilate. More than 60% of Real Americans, support vengeance against muslimes.
Unadulterated barbarity – the world as we see everyday is that much more barbaric and savage now …. Think this has anything to do with the concentrated effort to undermine and INTENTIONALLY shift us away from our core judeo/Christian values? I certainly do…
Cassandra
26 days ago
They should start at the top then, Ratskin, Scumer and pencil neck…
Nancy Swartz
26 days ago
It’s interesting to find out that 21% of Muslims believe that killing unarmed women, children, old me is acceptable. AND, kidnapping the same block of people.
Tell me again HOW Islam is a “religion of PEACE”!!!! “Cause that is NOT what I have been seeing for the LAST 60 YEARS!
The more these muslims in name only say differs from their beliefs and what I get told from other Muslims by the wayside or by what I read. They are damn liars, deceitful, in your face, lie about their nationality and religion. I do know for a FACT those Muslims just lice hitler and Nazism. The way those badtards talk about the ww2 and Germans is ridiculous. This is at work! I’m dure they love Hitler’s controlled factors. So wrong.
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GWC
26 days ago
The influx of all illegals and “refugees” like the Somalia’s and such. One they are here we can’t get rid of them. It will be a hot Civil War” based on religions and good vs. evil. Don’t think for a minute they are not arming themselves in these “gun control states”. Our military is being groomed to also join in. They will turn on the people as they junior grade officers are gutless and beholden to a promised promotion. They have pretty much weeded out real patriots. The ones outside the zone of influence (Oath Keepers have been thrown in jail and the organization has been disrupted if not broken altogether.
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