By Esther Cepeda |GazetteXtra| Posted February 13, 2012 [Original Article]
CHICAGO — It seems that every week, some
really important news fails to get enough headlines. A story that crept
by amid last week’s bloated political coverage was a study that showed
how few Muslim-Americans are involved in terrorist activities... [Read More]
..."The author of the study, Charles Kurzman, a professor of sociology at
UNC, wrote that “Muslim-American terrorism continued to be a minuscule
threat to public safety last year. None of America’s 14,000 murders in
2011 were due to Islamic extremism.”...[Read More]
..."The majority have an unfavorable view of al-Qaeda, decry all violence
in the name of their religion, rate their communities as excellent
places to live and increasingly believe U.S. anti-terrorism policies are
“sincere.”
A month before that, a Gallup poll found that the Muslim-American
community is more enthused and optimistic about its country than any
other religious group—and without question Muslims are loyal to America"...[Read More]
..."Some, of course, will never be swayed. A Florida fundamentalist
Christian group got Lowe’s to dump its sponsorship of the reality-TV
show “All-American Muslim” because it felt the show is “propaganda that
riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American
liberties and traditional values.” But the facts speak for themselves"... [Read More]
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