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 Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks |
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Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks
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Thursday April 26, 2007
.... there is uncertainty about whether al-Qaeda actually conducts such
attacks. On average less than one in four believes al-Qaeda was
responsible for September 11th attacks... (in Pakistan) only 3 percent
think al-Qaeda did it. There is no consensus about who is responsible
for the attacks on New York and Washington; the most common answer is
“don’t know”...
An in-depth poll of four major Muslim countries has found that in all of
them large majorities believe that undermining Islam is a key goal of US
foreign policy.
Most want US military forces out of the Middle East and many approve of
attacks on US troops there.
Most respondents have mixed feelings about al Qaeda. Large majorities
agree with many of its goals, but believe that terrorist attacks on
civilians are contrary to Islam.
There is strong support for enhancing the role of Islam in all of the
countries polled, through such measures as the imposition of sharia
(Islamic law). This does not mean that they want to isolate their
societies from outside influences: Most view globalization positively
and favor democracy and freedom of religion.
These findings are from surveys in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, and
Indonesia conducted from December 2006 to February, 2007 by
WorldPublicOpinion.org with support from the START Consortium at the
University of Maryland.
Large majorities across all four countries believe the United States
seeks to, “weaken and divide the Islamic world.” On average 79 percent
say they perceive this as a US goal, ranging from 73 percent in
Indonesia and Pakistan to 92 percent in Egypt. Equally large numbers
perceive that the United States is trying to maintain “control over the
oil resources of the Middle East” (average 79%). Strong majorities
(average 64%) even believe it is a US goal to “spread Christianity in
the region.”
“While US leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people
in the Islamic world clearly perceive the US as being at war with
Islam,” said Steven Kull, editor of WorldPublicOpinion.org.
Consistent with this concern, large majorities in all countries (average
74%) support the goal of getting the United States to “remove its bases
and military forces from all Islamic countries,” ranging from 64 percent
in Indonesia to 92 percent in Egypt.
Substantial numbers also favor attacks on US troops in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and in the Persian Gulf. Across the four countries polled
approximately half support such attacks in each location, while three in
ten are opposed. But there is substantial variation between countries:
Support is strongest in Egypt, where at least eight in ten approve of
attacking US troops in the region. A majority of Moroccans also support
targeting US forces, whether stationed in the Persian Gulf (52%) or
fighting in Iraq (68%). Pakistanis are divided about attacks on the
American military, many do not answer or express mixed feelings, while
Indonesians oppose them.
However, respondents roundly reject attacks on civilians. Asked about
politically-motivated attacks on civilians, such as bombings or
assassinations, majorities in all countries--usually overwhelming
majorities--take the strongest position offered by saying such violence
cannot be justified at all. More than three out of four Indonesians
(84%), Pakistanis (81%), and Egyptians (77%) take this position, as well
as 57 percent of Moroccans (an additional 19 percent of Moroccans say
such attacks can only be “weakly justified”).
Attitudes toward al-Qaeda are complex. On average, only three in ten
view Osama bin Laden positively. Many respondents express mixed feelings
about bin Laden and his followers and many others declined to answer.
There is strong disapproval of attacks by “groups that use violence
against civilians, such as al-Qaeda.” Large majorities in Egypt (88%),
Indonesia (65%) and Morocco (66%) agree that such groups “are violating
the principles of Islam.” Pakistanis are divided, however, with many
not answering.
But there is also uncertainty about whether al-Qaeda actually conducts
such attacks. On average less than one in four believes al-Qaeda was
responsible for September 11th attacks. Pakistanis are the most
skeptical, only 3 percent think al-Qaeda did it. There is no consensus
about who is responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington; the
most common answer is “don’t know.”
Most significantly, large majorities approve of many of al-Qaeda’s
principal goals. Large majorities in all countries (average 70 percent
or higher) support such goals as: “stand up to Americans and affirm the
dignity of the Islamic people,” “push the US to remove its bases and its
military forces from all Islamic countries,” and “pressure the United
States to not favor Israel.”
Equally large majorities agree with goals that involve expanding the
role of Islam in their society. On average, about three out of four
agree with seeking to “require Islamic countries to impose a strict
application of sharia,” and to “keep Western values out of Islamic
countries.” Two-thirds would even like to “unify all Islamic counties
into a single Islamic state or caliphate.”
But this does not appear to mean that the publics in these Muslim
countries want to isolate themselves from the larger world. Asked how
they feel about “the world becoming more connected through greater
economic trade and faster communication,” majorities in all countries
say it is a good thing (average 75%). While wary of Western values,
overall 67 percent agree that “a democratic political system” is a good
way to govern their country and 82 percent agree that in their country
“people of any religion should be free to worship according to their own
beliefs.”
"The attack on 911 was planned, organized and committed by treasonous
perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest levels of our government."
Colonel Guy S. Razer, USAF (ret.), decorated combat fighter pilot and
aeronautical engineer
www.patriotsquestion911.com
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: Re: Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks |
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"Buzz" <TheBuzzl@yahoo.com> wrote in a message
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Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks
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98% of the people in US prisons are innocent people who were framed by 'Da
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: Re: Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks |
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Briga wrote:
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John P. wrote:
"Buzz" <TheBuzzl@yahoo.com> wrote in a message
Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks
98% of the people in US prisons are innocent people who were framed by
'Da Man'.
Some small percentage probably innocent, not 98%.
That guy known as Mumia Abu-Jamal may be innocent.
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He isn't. |
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Briga
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: Re: Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks |
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John P. wrote:
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"Buzz" <TheBuzzl@yahoo.com> wrote in a message
Less than 25% of Muslims Blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 Attacks
98% of the people in US prisons are innocent people who were framed by 'Da
Man'.
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Some small percentage probably innocent, not 98%.
That guy known as Mumia Abu-Jamal may be innocent.
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New Evidence of Mumia Abu-Jamal Frame-Up
Explosive crime scene photos unveiled for the first time in the US
by Hans Bennett / May 31st, 2007
“The newly discovered photographs reveal the fact that the police were
actively manipulating evidence at the homicide scene. For example, their
moving the police officer’s hat from the roof of Billy Cook’s vehicle to
the sidewalk to make the scene more emotionally dramatic was fraudulent
and criminal. It was as if they were setting up a scene, putting in
props for a movie to be shot. That is incredible,” said Robert R. Bryan,
lead attorney for death-row journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia
Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer
Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death in a 1982 trial that Amnesty
International has declared a “violation of minimum international
standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death
penalty.”
The new crime scene photos described by Bryan were recently unveiled in
Philadelphia by German author Michael Schiffmann, during a crucial week
for Abu-Jamal.
On May 17, a three-judge panel from the federal Third Circuit Court of
Appeals held oral arguments in Philadelphia and considered four
different issues regarding the fairness of Abu-Jamal’s original 1982
trial. Joined by Christina Swarns of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Bryan
argued that Abu-Jamal’s trial was tainted with racist jury selection,
confusing jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct in summation to
the jury (at both guilt and penalty phases), and the bias of a trial
judge that a court stenographer overheard boasting in 1982, that he was
going to help the prosecution “fry the nigger.”
Supporters of Abu-Jamal packed the federal courthouse and held a large
demonstration outside on the street. While many of the hundreds of
supporters outside held large posters displaying the new crime scene
photos to the Philadelphia public, the explosive new evidence could not
be presented in the courtroom because of the narrow “four-issue” scope
of the oral arguments.
Only a new trial will allow this new photographic evidence to be
presented before a court.
German Author Michael Schiffmann Presents New Photos
Among the many international observers in Philadelphia for the hearing,
was German author Michael Schiffmann, who utilized the important week to
present the crime scene photos and other new evidence from his new book
(not yet published in the US) “Race Against Death; Mumia Abu-Jamal: a
Black Revolutionary in White America,” an expansion of Schiffmann’s PhD
dissertation at the University of Heidelberg, just released in Germany.
Following the May 17 oral arguments, Schiffmann presented Race Against
Death to a standing-room only crowd at a community center in West
Philadelphia. Along with presenting original ballistics analysis,
Schiffmann unveiled the new crime scene photos from the morning of
December 9, 1981, that have only been published in his German book.
Schiffmann recounted how in May, 2006, he discovered two photographs on
the Internet that were taken by the only press photographer immediately
present at the 1981 crime scene – Pedro P. Polakoff, III. Upon
contacting him, Polakoff told Schiffmann that he arrived within 12
minutes of hearing about the shooting on the police radio and about ten
minutes before the Mobile Crime Unit (responsible for forensics and
photographs) arrived. According to Polakoff, this unit had still not
taken any photos when Polakoff left after 30-45 minutes at the scene.
Schiffmann published five of Polakoff’s photos in Race Against Death,
and chose four of those to present to the US public on thousands of
large posters spread around Philadelphia, and also on the “Journalists
for Mumia” website, Abu-Jamal-News.com.
One photo is of Police Officer James Forbes, who testified in court that
he had secured the weapons of both Faulkner and Abu-Jamal without
touching them on their metal parts in order to not destroy potential
fingerprints. Attorney Robert R. Bryan considers this photograph of
Forbes to be the “most stunning example” of the “incompetent manner in
which the police at the scene dealt with the evidence,” because Forbes
is “holding both pistols found at the scene in one hand, bare-handed!
This is unthinkable. A nitwit could do better. Why were there no
fingerprint tests? Why no ballistic examinations? It reminds me of a
scene from ‘The Keystone Cops,’ the way the evidence was being handled
and manipulated, except this was not funny.”
Another, two-photo sequence shows that the police moved P.O. Faulkner’s
hat from the roof of Abu-Jamal’s brother’s car, and placed it instead on
the sidewalk in front of 1234 Locust where it was later photographed by
the police photographer who arrived 10 minutes after Polakoff.
The last photo is of the large, empty space directly behind P.O.
Faulkner’s car, where the second-most important prosecution witness, cab
driver Robert Chobert, testified to have been parked when he claimed to
have observed Abu-Jamal shoot Faulkner.
Schiffmann extensively interviewed Polakoff about what he saw and heard
at the crime scene, and reports in Race that “according to Polakoff, at
that time all the officers present expressed the firm conviction that
Abu-Jamal had been the passenger in Billy Cook’s VW and had shot and
killed Faulkner by a single shot fired from the passenger seat of the car.”
While this observation contradicts the official prosecution scenario
that Abu-Jamal ran from across the street before shooting Faulkner, it
strongly supports Schiffmann’s original ballistics analysis and
conclusion that a third person (not Abu-Jamal or his brother Billy Cook)
most likely shot and killed Faulkner. This third person was Kenneth
Freeman (Billy Cook’s friend and business partner), who – according to
the available evidence – was the passenger in Cook’s car, and was
therefore the black male that six eyewitnesses reported to see fleeing
the scene moments before other police arrived.
Polakoff also told Schiffmann that the police opinion that the passenger
was the shooter “was apparently based on the testimony of three
witnesses who were still present at the crime scene, namely, by the
parking lot attendant in charge of the parking lot on the Northern side
of Locust Street, by a drug addicted woman apparently acquainted with
the parking lot attendant, and another woman. As Polakoff later heard
from colleagues in the media, the parking lot attendant had disappeared
the day after, while the drug-addicted witness died a couple of days
later from an overdose.”
Schiffmann concludes that “whatever it was that these witnesses saw or
did not see, we will probably never know – the interesting fact in any
case is that neither of them ever appeared in any report presented by
the police or the prosecution.”
Polakoff told Schiffmann that he was simply ignored when he repeatedly
contacted the DA’s office in 1982 and 1995 to give them his account–and
his photos–of the crime scene.
Mainstream Media Ignores Photos
While a few alternative media websites like The Independent Media Center
(indymedia.org) and Infoshop News (infoshop.org) have enthusiastically
reported on the unveiling of Polakoff’s photos, a “Google” news search
reveals a total blackout in the mainstream media. Not even one
mainstream media outlet has reported on them.
Veteran Philadelphia journalist Linn Washington, Jr., has been covering
the Abu-Jamal case for over 25 years. He feels that the media’s absolute
failure to even acknowledge these explosive photos continues a long
history of media bias against Abu-Jamal’s fight for a new and fair
trial. This shows “once again how this supposed information seeking
institution shirks its ethical duties in the Abu-Jamal case to ‘seek
truth and report it.’”
“This series of photographs damage the prosecution’s case significantly
because they graphically show police tampering with and manipulating the
crime scene.”
“Given the old ‘picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words’ dynamic, it is not
surprising that the prosecutor repeatedly rejected this photographer’s
offers of assistance because his photos expose the structural flaws in
the case presented in court against Abu-Jamal. These photos provide
additional evidence that the jury did not consider all of the available
evidence due to misconduct by police and prosecutors. This misconduct
fuels demands for a fair trial in this case.”
Listen to the audio from Michael Schiffmann’s presentation:
http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2007/05/audio-press-release-new-mumia-crime.html
View the crime scene photos:
http://Abu-Jamal-News.com
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