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RUSH: I was preparing for this program last night and spinning through the news, kept seeing all these news stories on this Pew study about how moderate Muslims in America are. I ignored it because the instincts just took over. I got a collection here of headlines to illustrate things that I saw last night, and these headlines seem to present a uniform picture of the good assimilating moderate American Muslim. My experience with the Drive-By Media is that once one of them reports something, they all pick up on it, the same theme — I just don\u2019t trust it. So I got in here today and I really wasn\u2019t going to pay much attention to this, and I read a piece by Debbie Schlussel at her blog, DebbieSchlussel.com<\/a>, and she starts out this way. She says, ‘For almost six years, we\u2019ve heard the constant chorus: ‘Muslims in America are different.\u2019 On 9\/11, we were told that American Muslims would never commit the attacks like those perpetrated upon 3,000 Americans by 19 foreign Arab Muslims in our midst. The 19 men were different than Muslims in America, because they ‘hijacked their religion,\u2019 we were told. On 7\/7, we were told that European Muslims are different. We were told that American Muslims would never try to blow up subways and train stations here, unlike those in London who did it &hellip; twice, and those in Madrid who killed far more on their trains. We were told — and continue to be told — that American Muslims would never continuously riot in the streets, burning hundreds of cars a day, as they\u2019ve been doing throughout France, going on 3 years, and violently attacking and injuring more than a dozen police per day. American Muslims are different, we\u2019re told. They\u2019re far more assimilated, far more successful financially,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. <\/line> <\/line>‘Well, now we\u2019ve come to find out that Muslims in America are not so different from their co-religionists around the world. In fact, their viewpoints are pretty much the same as that of their religious counterparts around the world, and getting more extreme with age and American upbringing. The message of the just-released Pew Research Center study on ‘Muslim Americans\u2019 is clear (if you can get beyond the biased press coverage and headlines): America hasn\u2019t moderated Islam or its adherents. Islam has made America Muslim residents more extreme, just as with its European counterparts. Wealth and education and opportunity and freedom have done nothing to moderate them.\u2019 Here are some of the details from this survey. If you only read the headline, and you didn\u2019t read deep in any of these stories, this might come as a surprise to you. ‘More than one in four Muslims (or 26%), aged 18-29, said ‘Suicide Bombing is Justified.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, lets run the numbers. What do we have, two and a half million Muslims in America, living here, break it down, whatever percentage of them are between 18 and 29, then take 26% of that. You\u2019re talking about a significant number of people in the demographic group that do take action like this around the world. ‘Two percent of them say it can often be justified, 13% say sometimes, and 11% say rarely.\u2019 So let\u2019s add it up, 26 and 2 is 28, so 31% think to one degree or another, suicide bombing is justified. If you add to that the 5% that don\u2019t know or refuse to answer, it\u2019s even worse. So almost a third of young American Muslims who support in one way or another homicide bombings according to the Pew poll. ‘12% of foreign-born Arab Muslims said that ‘Suicide Bombing Can be Justified Often\/Sometimes.\u2019 That\u2019s more than one in ten. 10% of them don\u2019t know\/refused to answer. That\u2019s a total of 22% who apparently support homicide bombings. That\u2019s more than one in five and almost one in four.\u2019 Yet the headlines all last night on this story were, ‘Muslims assimilating in America. Muslims are moderate.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Eight percent of all U.S. Muslims said suicide bombing is justified. Add to that the 9% that don\u2019t know\/refused to answer, and you get 17%, almost 1 in 5 American Muslims,\u2019 support suicide bombings. It goes even further. We\u2019ve heard for a long time that American Muslims, that Al-Qaeda doesn\u2019t represent Islam, and Al-Qaeda\u2019s hijacked the religion. ‘More than one in four American Muslims, aged 18-29, support Al-Qaeda. 7% outright viewed it favorably, plus 19% don\u2019t know\/refused to answer–for a total of 26%. Yup, more than one in four young Muslims in America supports Qaeda. One third of American Muslims age thirty or more support Al-Qaeda. 4% support the group outright, plus the 29% that refused to answer, for a total of 33%. If you can\u2019t answer an outright no to this question, you support Al-Qaeda. Of all American Muslims, only 58% have a very unfavorable view of Al-Qaeda.\u2019 Well, okay, fine, but 42% do. <\/p>\n

Now, as I say, I\u2019m not surprised by this. None of this surprises me. The point that I wish to make is the headlines that heralded all of this, and let me just share some of them with you, thanks to the people at Ace of Spades headquarters at Pajamas Media, I guess. USA Today poll: ‘Most Muslims seek to adopt American lifestyle.\u2019 And then they give supporting quotes. Voice of America poll: ‘US Muslims feel post-9\/11 backlash, despite moderate outlook.\u2019 New York Times and their International Herald Tribune: ‘Muslims assimilate better in US than Europe, poll finds.\u2019 Medialine: ‘Pew poll shows American Muslims believe solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict is possible.\u2019 Chicago Tribune: ‘US Muslims more content, assimilated than those abroad.\u2019 The Pew polling organization itself headlined their own story with, ‘Muslim Americans: middle class and mostly mainstream.\u2019 USA Today\u2019s blog headline: ‘Muslim Americans overwhelmingly Democratic but conservative on many issues.\u2019 And the Detroit News: ‘Survey: Muslims largely assimilated in United States.\u2019 Yet we have significant numbers of them who say they support Al-Qaeda, that they support suicide bombings, they support other types of violence. So why these headlines? Because the Drive-By Media, in concert with the Democrat Party, cannot permit the American people to agree with George Bush or to understand that Bush is right about the threat that we face from Islamofascists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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