By Andrew L. Jaffee

The BBC has produced a “poll of more than 28,000 people [which] found that 56 percent of respondents believed ‘common ground can be found’ between Muslims and Westerners, while only 28 percent said violence was inevitable.” Huh? Who did the Beeb interview? I’m all for being positive, but really… Those polled must’ve been smoking something pretty strong, or are just delusional. “Violence” has already occurred, most of it Muslim on Muslim — 3,709 Iraqis were killed in Sunni vs. Shiite sectarian attacks during October 2006 alone. A “bomber blew himself up in a packed room during court proceedings on Saturday, killing 15 people including Quetta’s [Pakistan] senior civil judge.” Three-hundred were trampled to death in last year’s Hajj; 1,426 killed in the 1990 Hajj; 251 in 2004; etc. But this poll concentrated on West vs. Islam, and Islamists have their hands drenched in buckets of Western blood (and that of other infidels):

Islamists massacred 344 civilians — half of them children — in Beslan, North Ossetia. They killed 174 in Mumbai, India; murdered 50+ in Turkey; and have killed tens of thousands in Indonesia, Algeria, and Nigeria. Al-Qaeda slaughtered 88 innocent Egyptians last July 23.

1,095 innocent Israelis have been killed by Palestinian terrorists since September 2000. Thirty-thousand Iraqis, mostly Muslim, have been slaughtered by Islamist terrorists since the country’s liberation.

9/11 (3000 dead). Madrid (200 dead). London (50 dead). Bali (200 dead). Amman (57 dead). Sudanese Muslims have slaughtered 180,000 black Africans. Kuwaitis ethnically cleansed 400,000 Palestinians in 1991.

So the poll concluded, “A majority of people around the world do not believe the world is locked in a ‘clash of civilizations’ that will lead to violent conflict between Islam and the West.” Wishful thinking?

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Related: Islam, War Against Islamo-fascism, Society

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