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Old 08-04-10, 04:59 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by tater View Post
The complete report on US muslims (pretty progressive as the world goes):
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf

They have a 42% approval for AQ. (answering "don't know" here in the US is tantamount to "i support AQ.") Of that 42%, 27% was "don't know" or "refuse to answer."
Shoot, now I'm regretting all the times I've given answers like that in Republican robocall polls.

Really, since when does a refusal to answer equal "I love Al Qaeda"? Because it sounds like you've done some juggling to get the 42% approval figure - like somehow interpreting the "somewhat unfavorable" 10% as "favorable" and adding that to the 5% who actually do favor Al Qaeda and the 27% who didn't know/refused (referring to the chart on page 5).

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