Muslim "politics"

From THE JERUSALEM POST, May. 22, 2007 ....

One in four younger US Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances...

The survey by the Pew Research Center, [is] one of the most exhaustive ever of the country's Muslims.....

While nearly 80 percent of US Muslims say suicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam can not be justified, 13 percent say they can be, at least rarely. That sentiment is strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent of them say it can often be justified, 13 percent say sometimes and 11 percent say rarely....

....US Muslims are far less accepting of suicide attacks than Muslims in many other nations. In surveys Pew conducted last year, support in some Muslim countries exceeded 50 percent, while it was considered justifiable by about one in four Muslims in Britain and Spain, and one in three in France....

..... Only 40 percent said they believe Arab men carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
By six to one, they say the US was wrong to invade Iraq, while a third say the same about Afghanistan - far deeper than the opposition expressed by the general US public.

.....Forty-seven percent said they consider themselves Muslim first, rather than American....