"Most in Poll Back (The President's) Outreach to Muslims"

[Clio the Leo]

Hate to tell you this Mr. Beck but.....

Most in Poll Back Outreach to Muslims
By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, April 6, 2009; Page A10

Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to "seek a new way forward" with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative views about Islam and a sizable number say that even mainstream adherents to the religion encourage violence against non-Muslims, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Majorities of Americans with sympathetic and unsympathetic views about Islam said it is important for the president to try to improve U.S. relations with Muslim nations, with those holding more positive views much more likely to call those moves "very important." In his inaugural address, Obama extended an offer to leaders of unfriendly Muslim nations that the United States "will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." Overall, nearly two-thirds said Obama, who arrived yesterday in Ankara, Turkey, will handle the diplomatic mission "about right."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501586.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Funny how those Americans who think mainstream Muslims

encourage violence always forget Dr. Ali or Dr. Karim who saved their mother's life via open heart surgery.

[Kalyke]

2. I doubt they even know that.

But, even if they did, most of these types of Americans wouldn't know what a mainstream Muslim or Arab person acts like to begin with. They're worldview is defined by the far right who act, surprisingly, like the Taliban, anyway.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. You are so correct

I know that right after 911, one of our best surgeons, Dr. Ali, was very nervous because the idiots in town who listen to Glen Beck, et al, were saying crazy things like "send them back to their country" and "round them up and put them all in camps". He had never really talked about his faith, and so the idiots didn't know he was Muslim--only that he was from Egypt. And somehow the fact that he was probably Muslim didn't even enter their minds.