Opinion Polls in the Islamic world

I don't know why people are so shocked by the disgusting opinions expressed by much of the Islamic world in the polls below.

If the Islamic world had reasonable opinions, it would not be such a sea of oppression, terror, war and poverty. The Arab Spring would have worked. If the Palestinians had reasonable opinions, and supported democracy and human rights and compromise, there would be no Israel conflict. Palestinians would be rich. The failures of the Islamic world are not failures of leadership. They are failures of the people. It is because of their disgusting opinions that the Islamic world is the way it is.

Many people can't believe these polls. They know many western, liberal Muslims, and think the fundamentalist maniacs are a tiny minority. But the opinion polls show that is not true. Opinion polls show that the extremists and terrorists represent mainstream opinion in the Islamic world (large minority, and often majority).

The polls show there are millions of Muslim liberals. But it is not enough. That is still a small minority. There need to be hundreds of millions of liberals to make an impact.





The Pew Research Center has done a number of surveys of the appalling opinions of the Islamic world.

Terror Free Tomorrow polls of the Islamic world.

As I said, all over the world, ordinary people have disgusting and sick political opinions. That's the way the world is. That's the way it's always been. That's why history is such a bloodbath.

The appalling opinions of the Islamic world. Poll of 2012 , released Apr 2013.There is some hope in the Balkans, Turkey, Lebanon and the former Soviet Union.There is no hope in Palestine, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq.See another graph of the same data, from here





Slow learners: Poll, July 2014, shows a fall over the years in support for jihad.

As the Islamic world burns under Obama, this poll shows a gradual fall in support for jihadi slaughter across the Islamic world.

It's a bit late now to have regrets. You started this inferno, people. Good luck trying to stop it.





This misleading propaganda went viral after the Sydney jihad attack of Dec 2014.

It implies that Muslims who aren't active jihadists are opposed to them. That is like claiming that all American civilians are opposed to the US military.

In reality, perhaps 300 to 500 million Muslims support violent jihad, depending how the question is posed in surveys.

From Eric Amer.

I debated with a bloke, Karl Hayden, who claimed that only "about 100k are involved in militant Islam. That's about 0.009% of the 1.6b Muslims in the world." I try to explain the real stats to him. I thought this was just a matter of quoting polls, but it does not go well. It's hopeless.





Graphic from Saif Rahman portrays reality, as opposed to Eric Amer's distortion above.





Sports commentator Curt Schilling got into trouble for this tweet in Aug 2015.

His TV network, ESPN, suspended him.

But can anyone explain what is wrong with it?

He is not comparing Muslims to Nazis. He is comparing Muslims to Germans. (If even that. He is making a general point about extremists.)





Raheel Raza, a Pakistani Muslim anti-extremism activist, argues against those naive westerners (like Barack Obama and Ben Affleck) who think only 1% of Muslims support extremism and terror. She says (as I do) that there is no hope of progress unless we confront the actual facts.

Her analysis of the opinion polls is near the end of the video. She shows that, depending on definition, hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world are extremists. Not all of them. Not 1.5 billion. But not a tiny minority either.





American Muslim Daniel Haqiqatjou attempts a reply to the above graph.

The first clue this is dodgy is that there are no numbers attached to particular offensive beliefs . We just have vague labels.

attached to . We just have vague labels. In the article he says "Radical Atheists" are "people who wake up wanting to kill Muslims and other believers" . Do such people exist ? His only example of such a person is the Chapel Hill killer, a man who supported the Ground Zero mosque!

. Do such people ? His only example of such a person is the Chapel Hill killer, a man who supported the Ground Zero mosque! His next circle is "neoconservatives and hawkish liberals as well as hardline secularists". He fails to explain what is wrong with these people. He is angry at the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but millions of Muslims supported those invasions. Are they in this circle too?

He has a circle of "racists", which seems to be anyone who criticises jihad or sharia. His terms are worthless.

The only people he calls "moderates" are people who are "horrified by US foreign policy" . Nice sleight of hand. Anyone who disagrees with Haqiqatjou's anti-American views on foreign policy is an "extremist"!

. Nice sleight of hand. Anyone who disagrees with Haqiqatjou's anti-American views on foreign policy is an "extremist"! His list of dangerous "radical" kuffar , I mean atheists, includes Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Geert Wilders, Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher. This is all he has to counter-balance the millions of Islamic clerics and jihadists screaming for oppression and terror? Truly pathetic.

, I mean atheists, includes Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Geert Wilders, Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher. is all he has to counter-balance the millions of Islamic clerics and jihadists screaming for oppression and terror? Truly pathetic. Daniel Haqiqatjou is an Islamist extremist. He is from a secular Shia Iranian background, but sadly became more devout than his family, switched to the Sunni tradition, and became a Sunni Islamist.

He now says people who criticise Islam or leave Islam should be arrested and possibly killed.

See video and audio of his horrible beliefs.





Supporters of Osama Bin Laden, Bangladesh, Oct 2001, shortly after 9/11.

They are protesting about the imminent invasion of Afghanistan.

What is hilarious about these posters is that Bert, the Sesame Street muppet, appears on them. See explanation.





Palestinians celebrate the 9/11 killings.It isunfair to show this, since this is not just a handful of people.A large percentage of Palestinians celebrated the 9/11 killings.





Palestinians celebrate 9/11.

Arafat and Bin Laden are on the same side.





Hamas head mourns the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

"We most certainly condemn the murder of this Arab and Muslim Holy Warrior."



