A Look at the Polls, Some Good News, Some Scary
By Douglas Farah
The recently released Pew poll of Muslims living in the United States has come up with some interesting numbers that are both heartening and scary.
One of the finding, not related to the content of the poll, is that the Muslim population is about 2.35 million. This should help push back with the numbers that CAIR and other groups have been using to justify their demands for special treatment.
CAIR and others in its orbit throw around numbers double or triple the Pew findings, with no accounting of the methodology of how their figures are arrived at, and it is good to have a solid response to that part of their ongoing campaign.
The good news, as noted by the Washington Post and others, is that the Muslim community, unlike those of much of Europe, are assimilated and generally feel positively toward the the United States.
Much has been written about the percentage of young Muslims who believe suicide bombing is acceptable at least under some circumstances.
To me, a more alarming number is the 47 percent of those surveyed who viewed themselves as Muslims first, then Americans or other nationalities. My full blog is here.
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