Reply #48: I looked for the poll at the Pew website and could not find it

[Mosby]

But I think I found where the data came from - I included the link at the bottom of my post. In the Pew article they use terms like "highly unfavorable" and "strongly negative" to describe Muslim views towards Jews. In the Jpost article they use slightly different language but I would suggest that it is all referring to the same phenomena, anti-semitism aka Jew hatred. I just don't see any reason to dress it up or use academic language - it is what it is.

Regarding me "jumping in and lending my support" to ugly smears about Arabs, all I did was point out that cannafield's personal experiences are for the most part consistent with what the data shows, namely that Muslims in the ME overwhelmingly have very negative views/attitudes towards Jews. How exactly this manifests itself overtly I really don't know but I don't have any reason to think that cannafield is making stuff up or exaggerating his personal experiences. It was the Palestinians after all that launched the second Intifada as a result of their failures at Camp David, I don't know how a community of people resort to this kind of senseless violence against Israelis/Jews without already holding very dehumanizing/bigoted views towards them.


http://pewglobal.org/2005/07/14/islamic-extremism-common-concern-for-muslim-and-western-publics/3/