Home-Grown Muslim Terrorism Discombobulates The Media

In the first-ever, nationwide survey of Muslim Americans, the Pew Research Center suggests that 26 percent of the 2.35 million Muslims in the U.S. believe there are circumstances in which suicide bombings are acceptable.

Nearly half (47 percent) think of themselves as Muslim first, American second. Among those under the age of 30, 13 percent believe suicide bombings to defend their religion are sometimes justified; 11 percent say this tactic is rarely justified; two percent say it can often be justified.

The Pew Research Center interviewed 1,050 randomly selected Muslim American adults aged 18 and older, from Jan. 24 through April 30, 2007. Half identified themselves as Sunni, 16 percent as Shiite. Sixty-five percent were foreign-born, 35 percent were born in the U.S.A. (three out of five of these are converts to Islam).

So how did the MSM report the shocking and frightening fact that there could be as many as 610,000 people living among us - the population of Charlotte, NC - who can justify terrorism against American civilians under certain circumstances?

A scan of the headlines shows that some played it straight, some downplayed the ramifications of the survey and some – bizarrely – chose to ignore the threat of homegrown terrorism altogether and focus instead on how “happy” and “assimilated” U.S. Muslims are (note the National Public Radio and Voice of America headlines; your tax dollars at work):

Just-The-Facts-Ma’am:
† CBS News (NY): Poll: 26% Of Young US Muslims OK Bombs

† CBS 42 (TX): Poll: One In Four US Muslims OK Suicide Bombs

† KTVO (MO): Some young US Muslims OK with suicide attacks

† Lone Star Times (TX): What about the enemy within?

† Los Angeles Times: Some younger US Muslims say suicide bombings could be justified

† Reuters: Poll finds some US Muslim support for suicide attacks

Burying The Lede:

† The Associated Press via York (PA) Dispatch: Poll: Most US Muslims critical of extremism, al-Qaida

† KRQE (NM): Poll: Most US Muslims reject extremism

† The Washington Post: : Pew Surveys Muslims in America

† WLBT-TV (MS): Poll: American Muslims reject suicide bombings, but pockets of discontent

† Wyoming News: Most US Muslims Reject Suicide Bombings

Bizarro Land:

† BBC News (UK): Muslims ‘well integrated’ in US

† CBC (Prince Edward Island, Canada): Muslims in US decidedly American: study

† DetNews.com (MI): Survey: Muslims largely assimilated in US

† The Ledger (FL): American Muslims: Happy to be here

† NPR: Pew Study Sees Muslim Americans Assimilating

† Voice of America: Poll: US Muslims Feel Post-9/11 Backlash Despite Moderate Outlook

† WBIR-TV (TN): STUDY: Some American Muslims discontent

† USA Today: Poll: Muslim Americans overwhelmingly Democratic, but conservative on many issues