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"Anti-Jew, Muslim attitudes rise in Europe: survey
By Michael Conlon, Religion Writer
Reuters
Wednesday, September 17, 2008; 2:06 PM
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish feelings are rising in several major European countries, according to a worldwide survey released on Wednesday.
The Washington-based Pew Research Center's global attitude survey found 46 percent of Spanish, 36 percent of Poles and 34 percent of Russians view Jews unfavorably, while the same was true for 25 percent of Germans, and 20 percent of French. "
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The linked article has a clear bias against Muslims, nor does it reflect only the countries of Europe. While the several references of countries that favored Jews were listed; the only listings of Muslims were listed on the unfavorability of Muslims. This is actually ‘robbing the victimization’ off the backs of Muslims (not that Muslims want that title).
This is similar to the reporting on the black struggle and how in research, there is much comparison to the Jewish community. This is not to say that Jews have not struggled in the past. However, the strategy is to try and rest upon the sufferings of others, and eventually show how they were part of the struggle (veering away from any oppressive role, of course). This usually sets the stage for some sort of reparation for their part of the struggle while ignoring the overwhelming majority, when many times their struggle was more severe.
While mentioning several Muslim countries, there was still the negative reporting of Muslims or Islam, and absolutely nothing mentioned positive of Muslims. Of all the Islamic countries in the world, there was nothing positive to report about Muslims? It goes on to mention the association of Arab countries and the negative attitude toward Jews. It seems convenient to have left out Israel’s position.
This writing of the hodge-podge statistics attempts to steal any thunder that Muslims have in reporting the increasingly obvious violation of their human rights, and conveniently including their Jewish brethren.
It’s interesting to note that this poll did not include other religions and how they would compare to what people say. Is it safe to assume that there is no anti-Christian, anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist, etc. bias? This poll had a psychological agenda from the onset. Since the numbers are already present. It might be useful to attempt to associate the ‘why’ with these numbers. Something tells me that the answers very different from the similarities attempted to be portrayed in this article. 5pillar.wordpress.com
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