PEW RESEARCH DID A SURVEY OF MOSTLY MUSLIM COUNTRIES TO SEE
WHAT THEIR FEELINGS ARE ABOUT TERRORIST GROUPS LIKE ISIS, AND
IT SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE TO ANYONE -- THEY DON'T REALLY LIKE
TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS LIKE ISIS.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME
EXAMPLES.
ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST WHICH ANALYZED
THE PEW RESEARCH --
LET'S SHOW YOU A QUICK GRAPH THAT GIVES YOU THE RESULTS.
IT
WILL SHOW YOU WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTRIES
CONSIDER ISIS TO BE UNFAVORABLE.
IN LEBANON IT IS 100%, ISRAEL
97%, JORDAN 94, YOU KNOW THE REST.
AS YOU GO DOWN, YOU CAN
SEE THAT THE UNFAVORABLE STATISTIC DECREASES, SO IN
PAKISTAN, FOR INSTANCE, YOU SEE THAT IT DECREASES.
PEW RESEARCH
EXPLAINED THAT A LITTLE BIT --
YEAH.
THINK ABOUT THE CONVERSE.
WE LOOK AT THAT AND WE
SAY, HOW COULD ANYONE NOT KNOW ABOUT ISIS?
HOW COULD YOU NOT
HAVE A STRONG ESTABLISHED OPINION ON ISIS?
LET'S GO OUT TO
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND POLL THEM ABOUT THEIR VIEWS ON BOKO
HARAM, OR ANY OTHER REBEL OR INSURGENT ORGANIZATIONS IN LATIN
AMERICA, SOUTHEAST ASIA, INDIA, PAKISTAN -- THEY WOULDN'T KNOW
ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
AND IN SOME CASES THEY MIGHT BE LED TO
BELIEVE THROUGH A COUPLE OF PERHAPS MISLEADING PIECES OF
INFORMATION THAT THEY ARE A GOOD GROUP.
WE HAD ORGANIZATIONS IN
THE MIDDLE EAST WE HAVE WORKED WITH.
BACK IN THE 1980S HE
WORKED WITH THE MUJAHEDIN.
IF YOU POLLED PEOPLE IN AMERICA
THEY MIGHT SAY, I HEARD REAGAN SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT THEM,
THEY MUST BE GOOD PEOPLE. 15 YEARS LATER THAT IS FUCKING
STUPID, BUT YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT KIND OF STUFF WHEN YOU AREN'T
INVOLVED IN THE CONFLICT.
GOOD ENOUGH FOR RAMBO.
BUT NO, THIS IS NOT THAT SURPRISING.
AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS, THE BLEEDING OBVIOUS WE HAVE TO
RESTATE AGAIN, ISIS ARE NOT ALL MUSLIMS.
I SAW A TWEET THIS MORNING FROM RICHARD DAWKINS, FAMOUS
ATHEIST, HE LINKED TO A STUDY IN THE TELEGRAPH THAT SAID THAT
25% OF MUSLIMS IN ENGLAND HAVE SYMPATHETIC VIEWS TOWARD THE
MUSLIM TERRORISTS IN FRANCE.
THEN I SEE THE EXACT OPPOSITE THING.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT ARTICLE THAT IS, I DIDN'T SEE THAT TWEET, I
HAVEN'T READ THE ARTICLE.
BUT THIS IS PEW RESEARCH, A
REPUTABLE ORGANIZATION, IT IS AN UNBIASED ORGANIZATION.
I WOULD
TRUST THEIR ANALYSIS, THEIR STATISTICS, MORE THAN ANYTHING
ELSE.
LOOK, KEEP IN MIND, MUSLIMS THAT ARE LIVING IN THESE
COUNTRIES THAT ARE AFFECTED BY ISIS ARE SEEING THEIR OWN FAMILY
MEMBERS MURDERED, SLAUGHTERED, BY THESE TERRORISTS.
THAT IS THE
REASON WHY YOU SEE SYRIAN REFUGEES TRYING TO COME INTO
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND THE UNITED STATES.
THESE PEOPLE DO
NOT HAVE A LITERAL STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE KORAN,
THESE ARE NOT VIOLENT PEOPLE, THEY ARE TRYING TO ESCAPE THE
VIOLENCE.
THEY HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF THE VERY VIOLENCE WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT ON A DAILY BASIS.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, ISIS
HAS KILLED MORE MUSLIMS THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
AND MUSLIMS
HAVE DONE MORE TO FIGHT ISIS THAN ANYONE ELSE.
THEY ARE ON
THE FRONT LINE.
THE THING IS TO TRY TO BREAK OUT OF THESE US
VERSUS THEM MENTALITY IS AND KNOW THAT WE ARE BEING AROUND
THE WORLD SUCKERED BY THESE EXTREMISTS.
AM I THE ONLY ONE
WHO WANTED A DAY OF CELEBRATING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MUSLIM
COMMUNITY, RATHER THAN WAR?
MY ALONE AND THAT?
WE COULD PROBABLY GET LIKE 8% SUPPORT.
LIKE IF PARIS JUST HAD A PARADE, AREN'T THEY GOOD AT
THAT, AND JUST UNDERSTANDING PEACE, RECONCILIATION --
THEY DID ANNOUNCE THAT THEY ARE ALLOWING IN THE 30,000
SYRIAN REFUGEES JUST AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACK.
I SAY THAT THEY ARE INCREDIBLE FOR DOING THAT, THEY
ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED INCREDIBLE,
IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THE RIGHT THING TO DO, WHAT IS
EXPECTED OF YOU AS A COUNTRY.