http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
Ben Affleck doesn't know shit about what he's talking about... or arguing against. But he successfully managed to talk over and stifle a very important debate with his stupidity.
So here are some polls on Muslim opinions and sentiment -
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ICM Poll: 20% of British Muslims sympathize with 7/7 bombers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510866/Poll-reveals-40pc-of-Muslims-want-sharia-law-in-UK.html61% of Egyptians approve of attacks on Americans32% of Indonesians approve of attacks on Americans
41% of Pakistanis approve of attacks on Americans
38% of Moroccans approve of attacks on Americans
83% of Palestinians approve of some or most groups that attack Americans (only 14% oppose)62% of Jordanians approve of some or most groups that attack Americans (21% oppose)42% of Turks approve of some or most groups that attack Americans (45% oppose)
A minority of Muslims disagreed entirely with terror attacks on Americans:
(Egypt 34%; Indonesia 45%; Pakistan 33%)
About half of those opposed to attacking Americans were sympathetic with al-Qaeda’s attitude toward the U.S.
[URL=http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb09/STARTII_
Feb09_rpt.pdf]http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb09/STARTII_Feb09_rpt.pdf[/URL]
Pew Research (2007): 26% of younger Muslims in America believe suicide bombings are justified.
35% of young Muslims in Britain believe suicide bombings are justified (24% overall).
42% of young Muslims in France believe suicide bombings are justified (35% overall).
22% of young Muslims in Germany believe suicide bombings are justified.(13% overall).
29% of young Muslims in Spain believe suicide bombings are justified.(25% overall).
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf#page=60Informal poll of Saudis in August 2014 shows 92% agree that Islamic State (ISIS) "conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law."
http://muslimstatistics.***/2014/08/24/92-of-saudis-believes-that-isis-conforms-to-the-values-of-islam-and-islamic-law-survey/Policy Exchange: One third of British Muslims believe anyone who leaves Islam should be killed
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/ShariaLawOrOneLawForAll.pdfPew Research (2010): 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
86% of Jordanian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
30% of Indonesian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
76% of Pakistanis support death the penalty for leaving Islam
51% of Nigerian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-around-the-world-divided-on-hamas-and-hezbollah/ICM Poll: 58% of British Muslims believe insulting Islam should result in criminal prosecution
[URL=http://www.icmresearch.co.uk/reviews/
2004/GuardianMuslimsPollNov04/GuardianMuslimsNov04.asp]http://www.icmresearch.co.uk/reviews/2004/Guardian%20Muslims%20Poll%20Nov%2004/Guardian%20Muslims%20Nov04.asp[/URL]
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As we can see, anti-western, pro-jihad, pro Shariah, anti-liberal sentiment is not (as Sam Harris tried to say) endorsed only by an extreme minority.
Worldwide it probably even accounts for a majority.This is an important message that, I think, genuinely needs to be discussed without being put down as racism or bigotry as soon as it is brought up. After 9/11 and Iraq and Afghanistan and now with ISIS I think it has to be accepted that radical Islam is not an ignorable minority and that it will not go away any time soon without intervention and support to moderate Muslims who try to speak out against the injustices committed in the name of their faith.
At some point we have to accept that Islam requires real reform in order to be able to fit in with Western values and in the meantime that Muslims who hold such sentiments cannot, for our safety, be a part of our society.
you have set out a very nice set of smokescreens with hate and fear mongering but with very little in real stats. to back your statements up
and for the most part you have cherry picked stats from old polls.
why not leave the hate mongering to the religious, they do it so well, take the high road...for science's sake!