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No wonder Muslim support for suicide bombing is declining
Wed, 07/25/2007 - 4:16pm
The latest Pew Global Attitudes survey contains the following good news:
The percentage of Muslims saying that suicide bombing is justified in the defense of Islam has declined dramatically over the past five years in five of eight countries where trends are available. In Lebanon, for example, just 34% of Muslims say suicide bombings in the defense of Islam are often or sometimes justified; in 2002, 74% expressed this view.
Today, two terrorists blew themselves up amid a crowd of soccer fans whose only crime was cheering Iraq's recent victory over South Korea in the wrong place at the wrong time. Is it any wonder why support for suicide bombing is dropping so rapidly in the Muslim world?
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