The enemy within? Moderate Muslims in America -- Maybe not so much!
Has anyone noticed the results of a scientific poll conducted between October 22nd and October 26th by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies for World News Daily? .Surveying 600 Muslim-Americans with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.98 percentage points.
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of “WND/WENZEL POLLS” conducted exclusively for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.
- Nearly half of 600 Muslim-American citizens polled who plan to vote in the 2012 presidential election believe parodies of Muhammad should be prosecuted criminally in the U.S., and one in eight say the offense is so serious violators should face the death penalty.
- The poll also found 40 percent of Muslims in America believe they should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Shariah standards.
- “Almost half of those Muslims surveyed – an astonishing 46 percent – said they believe those Americans who offer criticism or parodies of Islam should face criminal charges,” said pollster Fritz Wenzel in an analysis of the survey’s results.
“Even more shocking: One in eight respondents said they think those Americans who criticize or parody Islam should face the death penalty, while another nine percent said they were unsure on the question,” he said. Wenzel said even the 9 percent “undecided” on that particular question is alarming.
“Seldom in survey research does a response of ‘not sure’ carry such significance, but the response to this question certainly is a surprise, given the severity of the question, and offers insight into the conflict that some Muslims appear to face in making the ideals under-girding American society fit into their religious lifestyle,” he said.
Wenzel’s poll said 7.2 percent of the respondents said they “strongly agree” with the idea of execution for those who parody Islam, and another 4.3 percent said they somewhat agree.
While 80 percent said that they somewhat or strongly disagree with the idea, when those who said they were not sure are added, one in five Muslims across America cannot say they believe Christians or others who criticize Muhammad should be spared the death penalty.
More Muslim women (10.4 percent) than Muslim men (4.9 percent) said they strongly agree with the idea, while 12.4 percent of the women and 7.1 percent of the men were uncertain about the issue involving Muhammad.
Four in 10 said Muslims in America should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Islamic Shariah law.
“A much smaller percentage said they think the U.S. should establish an entirely separate court system to adjudicate matters involving Muslims,” Wenzel said.
American Muslims, Wenzel said, “show signs of ambivalence toward the U.S. Constitution generally and the First Amendment specifically.”
“These survey findings show a community in conflict with the foundations of our nation, as many Muslims favor and enjoy the freedoms offered by the U.S. Constitution, including participation in elections here, but at the same time significant percentages want to be treated differently than the average non-Muslim when it comes to legal matters,” he said.
“While 39 percent of Muslims said they believe existing U.S. courts should consult Shariah law when adjudicating cases involving Muslims, a plurality of 45 percent said they do not agree with this idea. Asked if the U.S. should establish separate courts based solely on Shariah law to adjudicate cases involving Muslim, 21 percent said it should. Two-thirds of respondents – 66 percent – said that separate courts are not necessary to adjudicate Muslims.”
While 9 of 10 of the Muslim respondents said they agree with the First Amendment, they are also in conflict with it, Wenzel said, citing evidence in answers to “another question in the survey which found that one-third of Muslims – 32 percent – believe Shariah should be the supreme law of the land in the United States,” Wenzel said.
“Another shocking finding from the survey is how Muslims view the religious freedoms of Christians. Asked whether U.S. citizens who are Christians have the right to evangelize Muslims to consider other faiths, just 30 percent agreed Christians have such a right. Another 42 percent said they do not have such a right, while 28 percent said they were unsure on the question.”
One in five say Muslim men should be allowed to follow their religion in America and have more than one wife, and 58 percent said criticism of their religion or of Muhammad should not be allowed under the Constitution. <Source>
Bottom line … True Muslims appear to be intolerant of anything that does not align with the religious believes, practices and the words of their religious leaders.
If such a high percentage of Muslims have little or no regard for the United States Constitution, what makes one believe that they would fight to uphold or protect the Constitution in a cultural battle? Would a significant percentage appear to defy their religion which teaches obedience to religious leaders to correct a radical Imam preaching intolerance, hate or jihad?
As we see Muslims infiltrate European nations and then demand political autonomy, might an increased number of Muslims within the United States present such a similar clear and present danger? Perhaps the solution is to restrict immigration from Muslim countries on a case-by-case basis and considering which people are unlikely to assimilate to make America stronger – not weaker?
In any event, since so much of the world’s terrorists are Muslim, perhaps it is time to consider that any further embrace of Muslims and Muslim culture is not in the best interests of America and act accordingly. Especially considering that the Saudi outreach has poured millions into the expansion of Wahhabist Mosques and international terrorism in exchange for not overthrowing their Kingdom. I cannot believe that if we were not dependent on foreign oil, that the Saudi participation in 9/11 would have resulted in a quite different investigation with a different course of actions.
Time for Americans to keep their eyes open as a religious fire engulfs the Middle East.
-- steve
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