Mental Mayhem reader Heiko alerted me to a survey whose findings disturbed me to no end. According to the survey by the Pew Research Center:
In Jordan, confidence in bin Laden, who took responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and many other attacks, rose to 60 percent from 55 percent.
Also according to the report, support for suicide bombings rose in Jordan to 57 percent from 43 percent in 2002.
I’m not sure how accurate this report is, but it is certainly disturbing!!! Is this really happening in Jordan? I hope and pray this is not the case. Can anyone shed any further light on this?
Hate shit?
When you get history correct then others won’t have to teach you history.
What a typical arrogant, ethnocentric, imperialistic, racist bunch of hogwash.
Are you serious, Jackoff?
Show me. Prove it. Unlike the WMD fiasco and the west’s obvious obsession with lying and manufacturing history, I will demand you show me where I said anything hateful.
And Mrs Tynes’s website is a public forum. People discuss things here. You don’t like it? Sorry, if you cant take the heat get out of the oven.
Pathetic. Childish. And a typical answer. Try harder.
When you get history correct then others won’t have to teach you history. Go preach your hate shit at some place else. Mrs Tynes site is not the place.
Cox,
Algeria’s death toll was 1.5 million. Please don’t preach to Arabs about their own history, aight?
And in Algeria the French tortured, executed, mutilated, raped, ravaged, and pillaged the Algerians.
Shame on you, sir, for you misguided and misinformed read of history.
Go back to chewin tobacco.
“the facts is that over 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq. ”
The currently accepted figure is 25,000. Some of those “civilians” will have been insurgents. More than half these deaths are caused by Muslims (whether you call them insurgents, resistance or terrorists).
The figure of “over 100,000” is correct for the war in Algeria, where all the killing was done by Muslims.
Hi Natasha, first I want to wish you a happy birthday and many more for you and yours. Regarding this poll, it is disturbing. I do not condone the past history of the west and its manipulations in the middle east, which is used to justify the hate we see. I come to your site to remind me that there are good and wonderful people there who deserve our support in making their lives better and stopping our western governments from making it any worse. The people of the world must take back control of our governments and assist those who can’t by using peaceful rather than military support. The western press rarely shows examples of moderate thinking in the middle east and I would suspect that the same percentage of westerners believe that the Islamic faith is a belief bent on violence. I come to your site and see this is not true. Good luck, peace to the world soon.
Haitham Sabbah at Jordan Planet has some interesting comment on the poll, but disturbing is still the word I use to describe it even if it is half true.
Natasha, I wouldn’t trust any such poll until someone knowledgeable looked carefully at the poll’s “internals” to verify that it had been constructed intelligently (and honestly). Too many people (especially media types) simply assume that polls really say what they are purported to say. I find that the phrase: “to lie like a pollster” is a very useful protective mnemonic in most situations. Here’s a useful link: http://www.mysterypollster.com
London is a city of 8 million inhabitants; one in seven of its inhabitant are muslim. These crimes serve no cause, muslim and non-muslim die together, but our beliefs and dreams for a better life that we all share for our loved ones, friends and neighbours continue.
Natasha or whatever your real name is, do you even live in Jordan? Are you really Jordanian?
You are so out of touch. You call the findings distrubing.
Funny.
Zeid, you have a pointt. Foolish Americans and ayrabs who lick American boots lie to themselves each and every day.
So, now look see here this video if you have stomache to see ayrabs killed and butchered.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9174.htm
This is what the Americans and the British and Australians have brought to Iraq.