These Are Not Barbarians

Muslim sentiments in the United States echo those abroad. A February survey from the Pew Research Forum finds nearly 60 percent of US citizens describing Israel’s war against Hamas as justified while nearly the same proportion of US Muslims say the opposite. Only a small number of Muslim Americans are Palestinian and only a quarter are Arab. But while only 8 percent of non-Muslim US adults view Hamas favorably, that number nearly quintuples among Muslim Americans. Eleven percent of US adults sympathize only with Israelis, yet about half of US Muslims sympathize exclusively with Palestinians. Read Full Article »