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Default 44% of Americans favour restricting Muslims' rights - 12-17-2004, 10:00 PM

Nearly one-half of Americans favour restricting Muslims' rights: poll

December 17, 2004

ITHACA, N.Y. -- In a study to determine how much the public fears terrorism, almost half of respondents polled nationally said they believe the U.S. government should -- in some way -- curtail civil liberties for Muslim Americans, according to a new survey released today (Dec. 17) by Cornell University.

About 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location with the federal government, and 26 percent said they think that mosques should be closely monitored by U.S. law enforcement agencies. Twenty-nine percent agreed that undercover law enforcement agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations, in order to keep tabs on their activities and fund raising. About 22 percent said the federal government should profile citizens as potential threats based on the fact that they are Muslim or have Middle Eastern heritage. In all, about 44 percent said they believe that some curtailment of civil liberties is necessary for Muslim Americans.

Conversely, 48 percent of respondents nationally said they do not believe that civil liberties for Muslim Americans should be restricted.

The Media and Society Research Group, in Cornell's Department of Communication, commissioned the poll, which was supervised by the Survey Research Institute, in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The results were based on 715 completed telephone interviews of respondents across the United States, and the poll has a margin of error of 3.6 percent.

The survey also examined the relation of religiosity to perceptions of Islam and Islamic countries among Christian respondents. Sixty-five percent of self-described highly religious people queried said they view Islam as encouraging violence more than other religions do; in comparison, 42 percent of the respondents who said they were not highly religious saw Islam as encouraging violence. In addition, highly religious respondents also were more likely to describe Islamic countries as violent (64 percent), fanatical (61 percent) and dangerous (64 percent). Fewer of the respondents who said they were not highly religious described Islamic countries as violent (49 percent), fanatical (46 percent) and dangerous (44 percent). But 80 percent of all respondents said they see Islamic countries as being oppressive toward women.

"Our results highlight the need for continued dialogue about issues of civil liberties in time of war," says James Shanahan, Cornell associate professor of communication and a principal investigator in the study. Shanahan and Erik Nisbet, senior research associate with the ILR Survey Research Institute, commissioned the study, and Ron Ostman, professor of communication, and his students administered it.

Shanahan notes: "Most Americans understand that balancing political freedoms with security can sometimes be difficult. Nevertheless, while a majority of Americans support civil liberties even in these difficult times, and while more discussion about civil liberties is always warranted, our findings highlight that personal religiosity as well as exposure to news media are two important correlates of support for restrictions. We need to explore why these two very important channels of discourse may nurture fear rather than understanding."

Researchers found that opinions on restricting civil liberties for Muslim Americans vary by political self-identification. About 40 percent of Republican respondents agreed that Muslim Americans should be required to register their whereabouts, compared with 24 percent of Democratic respondents and 17 percent of independents. Forty-one percent of Republican respondents said that Muslim American civic groups should be infiltrated, compared with 21 percent of Democrats and 27 percent of independents.

On whether mosques should be monitored, about 34 percent of the Republicans polled agreed they should be, compared with 22 percent of Democrats. Thirty-four percent of Republicans said that profiling of Muslim Americans is necessary, compared with 17 percent of Democrats.

The survey also showed a correlation between television news-viewing habits, a respondent's fear level and attitudes toward restrictions on civil liberties for all Americans. Respondents who paid a lot of attention to television news were more likely to favor restrictions on civil liberties, such as greater power for the government to monitor the Internet. Respondents who paid less attention to television news were less likely to support such measures. "The more attention paid to television news, the more you fear terrorism, and you are more likely to favor restrictions on civil liberties," says Nisbet.

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http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/De ... l.bpf.html
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http://www.comm.cornell.edu/msrg/report1a.pdf
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Default 12-17-2004, 10:11 PM

Hey, people are a lil' gun shy over here in the States. Can you blame them ??


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HEIL AMERICA!

I couldnt be happier...America is turning in to Nazi Germany...rock on! rock:
  
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Default 12-17-2004, 11:49 PM

We're fucking badasses. Stop making fun of us or I'll tell ol' Georgie. And he needs another war fix.
  
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Default 12-17-2004, 11:55 PM

thats gay, you can bust terrorists w/o profiling.
  
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Default 12-18-2004, 12:16 AM

First of all, France is already doing all of the above and several European countries are in the process of following suit well ahead of America.

Secondly, that 44% is being reached by combining the percentages different questions which would indicate curtailment of civil liberties, but does not indicate the question which indicated the largest percentage of responses (in order to reach the 44%). It inflates the severity of the percentage by pointing out some of the more shock-worthy answers and including them in the total (racial profiling, registering location, etc). Also, they tried to be tricky by wording the article ambiguously. When the percentages are listed out by actions, most of those percentages are obviously comprised of the same persons.

All in all, there are at least a half dozen European countries who have already implemented this sort of thing, and probably another 4 or 5 dozen UN member nations who never had this many civil liberties in the first place.

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Default 12-18-2004, 12:18 AM

I am friends with plenty of muslims, and they all consider suddem and bin laden non muslims because they have killed innocents...anyways, muslims aren't that bad of guys
  
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HEIL AMERICA!

I couldnt be happier...America is turning in to Nazi Germany...rock on! rock:
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HAHAHA WTF

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How did this happen???! happy:
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Default 12-18-2004, 01:28 AM

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I'm presuming that was sarcasm.
  
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Default 12-18-2004, 03:20 AM

annoy: damn man...this contrasts sharply with 98.5% of countries with a
muslim majority who say " do what you want to do, be who you want to be yeah!" rock:
  
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