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[bryant]

If you believe in curtailing the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans, you're not alone. In some ways I'm encouraged by these numbers; only 22% of those polled approved of racial profiling. I would have guessed that percentage would be higher. On the other hand, 27% of those polled wanted all Muslim-Americans to register where they lived. Which is atrocious.

Now, I was kind of curious as to what "curtailing civil liberties" meant, so I dug up the original report. I got distracted from that question by worse news: only 27% of the respondents believe that Muslim values are similar to Christian values. 31% said that the media should not report criticisms. 37% don't think people should be allowed to protest at all. Welcome to America.

I did finally get to the civil liberties question. The infringements in the poll involve the aforementioned registration, closely monitoring mosques by law enforcement agencies, racial profiling, and infiltrating Muslim organizations to keep watch on their activities. Plenty of support for all of those.

Hat tip to Malnurtured Snay.

Comments

[weaselboy.livejournal.com]

So there's at least 5% who don't support racial profiling but still think Muslims should register? Huh?

This suggests...

[dtm]

That the respondents perhaps didn't think through the questions being asked before giving their answers.

Which, so long as we continue to have a free press, is good news - it means that there's a good chance that a public education campaign could make decent progress against these numbers.

Or, um, so I hope.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Wasn't registering where they lived the first step in Hitler's attempt at systematically destroying the Jewish population of Europe?