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er, I listen to NPR a lot
I heard a report on tuesday that the majority of Muslims in a hell of a lot of countries do not think that Arabs caused 9/11.
Quote:
There is a body of opinion, especially among Muslims -- despite the 9/11 Commision's findings and the spread of videos puporting to show Osama bin Laden taking credit for the terrorist attacks -- that bin Laden, al-Qaida and more than 20 young Arab men did not conspire to fly airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The majority of people in Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan say they do not believe Arabs carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A majority of British Muslims and 46 percent of French Muslims also share this view. And in Pakistan, the number is 41 percent.
The statistics come from the June 22, 2006, Pew Global Attitudes Project on "The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other."
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I think part of that may stem from a refusal to believe that a Muslim could do this, despite all evidence to the contrary.
My question is how do we get them to change their views on this?
(ETA: An interview with someone in Jordan suggested that Muslims may not actually think that Arabs didn't cause 9/11, but they wouldn't admit to it. Which I take as hopeful, but still there seems to be a major disconnect with reality going on.)
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