Believing Truth Makes One "Anti-Muslim"

Thanks to McQ at QandO for bringing this to my attention. AP:

About one in four Americans holds anti-Muslim views, such as a belief that the religion teaches violence and hatred, according to a survey an Islamic advocacy group released Monday....

I wonder if the German Bund ever ran telephone surveys of Americans in the 1930s asking if people erroneously thought Nazis taught violence and hatred?

The telephone survey of a random sample of 1,000 American adults found that just over one in four people somewhat or strongly agreed with a series of anti-Muslim sentiments including: the Muslim religion teaches violence and hatred (26 percent agreed);

"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish [monotheistic] worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is forgiving, merciful" (Koran Sura 9:5)

Muslims value life less than other people (27 percent agreed);

"Our suicide operations are a message...that our people love death. Our goal is to die for the sake of God, and if we live we want to humiliate Jews and trample on their necks." ---Jamal Abdel Hamid Yussif.

and Muslims want to change the American way of life (29 percent agreed).

"Working for Islam means to reform oneself so that oneÂ’s life teaches others true belief and Islamic behavior. Working for Islam equally means to form a society that is committed to the Islamic way of thinking and Islamic way of life, which means to form a government that implements principles of justice embodied in the shariah [Islamic law] to guard the rights of every person and community, and establish truth and justice, and at the same time call others toward Islam - truth, peace, and justice.

These three responsibilities are obligatory not merely for the entire Muslim community but for every individual Muslim until we have established a system of governance adequate to the task. Until the nations of the world have functionally Islamic governments, every individual who is careless or lazy in working for Islam is sinful. These sins of omission will not be forgiven until they take a quick action to carry out all their responsibilities and Islamic duties.

These responsibilities to change both oneself and the world are binding in principle, in law, in self-defense, in community and as a sacred obligation of jihad, as explained in this chapter."--Muslim American Society.

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