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1. Over three quarters of respondents in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia want legal issues to be resolved in Sharia courts. Muslims are split evenly over the extreme stuff associated with Sharia (cutting off hands, death to the apostate), which gets its biggest support in South Asia.
2. Suicide bombing is mostly rejected – it remains popular among sizable minorities in Palestine (40 per cent), Afghanistan (39 per cent), Egypt (29 per cent) and Bangladesh (26 per cent).
3. Muslims do not think other people should be compelled to follow Islam. The lowest level of support for religious freedom was found in Egypt (77 per cent) and the highest in Bangladesh (97 per cent).
4. Sexual attitudes remain very conservative – . Majorities in every country said that wives should obey their husbands.
5. Support for democracy is high in South Asia but low in the Middle East and lowest in Pakistan
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Originally Posted by Damien
Yes but that is one finding in a report that is primarily showing that Muslims reject violence. Even that number drops quickly in Western nations. I agree it's a pretty bad finding but I don't think that report dismisses the idea Islam isn't a peaceful religion. If anything the numbers suggest a large amount of Muslims reject violence.
BTW Is there a online version of that report? I also wanted to link a graph but it was a PDF?
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The report came out over 18months ago, there loads of analysis on it. Just google it and there's graphs and comments a plenty.
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Originally Posted by martyh
gotta love the way every fact that goes against your own personal stance is classed as "irrelevant"
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Yeah, funnily enough, I find you irrelevant too.