Survey Says…
Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent’s highlighting of this poll is going to stir a hornet’s nest. I blog about it because red meat is healthy for you…
The new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, which I linked to below, also contained this interesting nugget:
The survey findings also show a significant correlation between trust in Fox News and negative attitudes about Muslims. Americans who most trust Fox News are more likely to believe that Muslims want to establish Shari’a law, have not done enough to oppose extremism, and believe investigating Muslim extremism is a good idea.
At first glance, this is a bit of a no-brainer. But I asked the organization to send over the numbers supporting this finding, and the specifics are really striking:
Read the article for the details…
February 17, 2011 at 4:33 pm
“Americans who most trust Fox News are more likely to believe that Muslims want to establish Shari’a law, have not done enough to oppose extremism, and believe investigating Muslim extremism is a good idea.”
Yeah, and that psycho Glenn Beck started telling us a few weeks ago about something called a “caliphate”, and how the rest of the Middle East would probably start revolting. You know, kinda like what’s actually going on now?
February 17, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Come on, Missy..nobody’s debating that there’s a revolution going on in the Middle East. But Beck extends it to an organized Left in this country that is fomenting it in order to bring Sharia Law to the US. Your telling of only one small part of the story is disingenuous, to say the least.