More Muslim Americans Believe They Are Thriving, Poll Says...
By Wendell Marsh WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 2, 2011 11:45am EDT (Reuters) – Muslim Americans are now more optimistic about their lives than any other major American faith group as their economic well-being improves and they feel more politically enfranchised. A Gallup study released on Tuesday found 60 percent of Muslim Americans surveyed reported they were “thriving”, slightly higher than for Americans of any other religion except for Jews, who edged them out of the top spot by one percentage point. Pollsters noted in particular the rapid surge in positive sentiment among Muslim Americans. The percentage of Muslims who were “thriving” grew by 19 points since 2008, double that of any other major faith...
Most American Muslims Are Satisfied Obama backers...
By Andrew Stern CHICAGO | Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:13am EDT (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. Muslims are content with the nation’s direction in contrast to many Americans and few Muslims believe there is support for Islamic extremism here, a survey released on Tuesday found. With the 10th anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on New York and the Pentagon approaching, the Pew Research Center found that most Muslims felt ordinary Americans were friendly or neutral toward them. In contrast to the majority of the general public dissatisfied with the nation’s direction, 56 percent of the estimated 2.75 million American Muslims said they are satisfied, the survey showed. Seven out of 10 view...
Indonesian Muslims Express No Sympathy on Death of Osama bin Laden...
May 02, 2011 Brian Padden | Jakarta In Indonesia, a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, many people voiced support for the U.S. operation that killed Osama bin Laden Although Indonesia is home to a variety of militant Islamic organizations that have carried out attacks against Western targets, the country has a history of religious diversity and moderation. So it is not surprising that Darma Widjaya, like many of the Muslims who came to midday prayers at the Sunda Kelapa mosque in Jakarta Monday expressed no sympathy upon hearing of the death of Osama bin Laden. He says it is quite good for the entire world, because bin Laden is a terrorist. Another mosque visitor...
US Muslims Relieved at Death of bin Laden...
May 02, 2011 Jerome Socolovsky | Washington, D.C. In the past decade, many American Muslims have said Osama bin Laden changed their lives in America for the worse. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that he ordered killed nearly 3,000 people and made all Muslims a target of suspicion, they said. So the killing of bin Laden by U.S. military commandos storming a heavily fortified compound in Pakistan was widely welcomed. “Today we greet the news of the death of Osama bin Laden with immense relief,” said Tarin. Haris Tarin, the head of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Washington office, says he was awake all night after the killing, communicating with Muslims, especially the younger generation. “And I...
Stockholm Bomber Seen as Radical by U.K. Muslims...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners. On Saturday, officials say, he died in a botched suicide bombing in Stockholm. Authorities are now trying to learn when he was radicalized, whether he had accomplices — and how a man whose radical views were displayed both online and in person escaped official notice. Swedish prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand said Monday that authorities are certain the suicide bomber who terrified pre-Christmas shoppers was Abdulwahab, an Iraqi-born Swede who spent much of the past decade in Britain. He said Abdulwahab was completely unknown to Swedish security police...
Get to know a Muslim, rather than hate one...
Updated 9/26/2010 6:17 PM By Tom Krattenmaker And then you’d know that the situation was bound to play out on a whole different frequency. At flashpoints from Temecula, Calif., to Gainesville, Fla., to New York, N.Y., and all along the low road in between, mongers of fear and haters of the “other” are sounding the alarm about Islam with a new level of intensity. To hear it from conservative spokesman Newt Gingrich and those of a similar persuasion, the Muslims between our shores are bent on taking over the country and imposing their “un-American” values. This demonizing and demagoguery is beneath us. My plea to those tempted to fall for the beware-of-all-Muslims hype: Get to know someone before you decide to fear...
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