Moderate Muslims, Fairies and Unicorns

Moderate Muslims, Tooth fairies and Unicorns two things that only occur in kid dreams, one thing in adult dreams. When my daughter was younger she used to throw her children's logic at me. Daddy you can't say that Unicorns and fairies don't exist----no one has ever proven it. I guess that why children are so great at dreaming, because you can't argue with that kind of logic.

As for the Moderate Muslims...unfortunately, their absence HAS been proven. In today's FrontPage Magazine Robert Spencer, Counter-Jihad Prophet and slayer of the Silly Alan Combs Dragon, takes us through some recent surveys that show that moderate Muslims do exist but in a frighteningly small number

• In January 2007, columnist Michael Freund summed up some disquieting recent survey results: 25% of Muslims in Britain approved of the July 7, 2005 jihad terror bombings in London; 30% said they would rather live under Sharia than in a Western pluralistic society.
  

• 44% of Muslims in Nigeria thought suicide attacks were “often” or “sometimes” justified, with only 28% rejecting them in all cases. Roughly 14% of Muslims in France, Britain and SpainEgypt approved of suicide attacks against civilian targets, and only 45% of Muslims in considered terror never justified.

• And in an Al-Jazeera survey on September 11, 2006, 49.9% of the respondents avowed that they did indeed support Osama bin Laden. Freund adds: “And the July 2006 global Pew survey found that among Muslims, a quarter of Jordanians, a third of Indonesians, 38% of Pakistanis and 61% of Nigerians all expressed confidence in the mass murderer who founded al-Qaida.”

• Freund also notes that “in Israel, the percentages are even more alarming. After Cpl. Gilad Shalit was abducted by Hamas terrorists last summer, a poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center revealed that 77.2% of Palestinians supported the kidnapping, while 66.8% said they would back additional such attacks.
  

• More than six out of 10 Palestinians also said they were in favor of firing Kassam rockets at Israeli towns and cities….” And in Lebanon in the summer of 2006, “the Beirut Center for Research and Information found that over 80% of the Lebanese population said they supported Hizbullah.”

• Some of the results of the Pew Research Center poll of Muslims in America, released in May 2007, were likewise startling: twenty-six percent of Muslims between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine affirmed that there could be justification in some (unspecified) circumstances for suicide bombing.

• Poll results are no better elsewhere. Much was made in the international media of a July 2007 Pew Research Center of attitudes among Muslims in 47 countries. AP reported that “the percentage of Jordanian Muslims who have confidence in bin Laden as a world leader fell 36 percentage points to 20 percent since 2003 while the proportion who say suicide bombing is sometimes or always justified dropped 20 percent points to 23 percent. Other countries where support for bin Laden declined are Lebanon, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan Kuwait.” Support for suicide attacks dropped sharply in Lebanon, from 79 percent in 2002 to 34 percent in 2007, and in Pakistan from 41 percent in 2004 to only nine percent in 2007. Among Palestinians it remained high, with only six percent affirming that suicide attacks could never be justified.
  

These declines are encouraging, but the percentages are still show that the rumor of Islamo-fascists being limited to “tiny minority of extremists” should be filed in the same place as we file stories about Fairies and Unicorns.

Read Spencer's Full article Most Muslims Reject Terrorism?