18% of black people have a positive view of Osama bin Laden.
In the journalism business, you’re not supposed to bury the lede. Unless it makes for better or less politically incorrect clickbait.
Polls pushing the idea that 18-24-year-olds uniquely support Hamas or Al Qaeda are sexy. Breaking down the numbers though reveals what’s going on.
Why is the 18-24 year old generation seemingly so bad? Sure, young people tend to extremism and, as I’ve pointed out before, the majority of 18-24-year-olds are not registered voters, so when you poll only those who are, you get very political people. And with that age demo, political tends to be extreme. The other missing piece of the puzzle is that this is a very diverse generation.
The most diverse generation ever.
The Daily Mail hypes its poll as about 18-24-year-olds.
“One in five young Americans has a positive view of 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, according to disturbing results of a DailyMail.com poll.
The alarming survey also found three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who slaughtered thousands of innocent people were a ‘force for good’.
Family members of 9/11 victims said the findings are ‘horrifying’ and proof of a startling trend suggesting some in the younger generation are growing sympathetic to terrorists.”
The Daily Mail’s own breakdown shows that only 3% of white people have a completely positive view of Bin Laden, 4% have a somewhat positive one, and 84% have a completely negative one.
7% of black people have a completely positive view of Osama, 11% have a somewhat positive one, 15% have mixed feelings, 9% don’t know, 7% are somewhat negative and only 50% have a completely negative view of the terror leader who killed thousands: including plenty of black people.
Among Hispanics, 9% have a completely positive view of Osama, 6% have a somewhat positive view, 11% are mixed, 15% don’t know, 7% have a somewhat negative view and only 51% are completely negative.
This isn’t a generational issue, it’s a racial one. It does get worse generationally among white people and minorities, but a major reason it gets worse generationally is added diversity.
These are simply the facts. It gives me no pleasure to report them.
I can throw in caveats. J.L. Partners, the pollster, is a British Tory pollster and much of its previous polling seems to have been UK based. The Daily Mail isn’t too credible and the questions would have been pushed to produce a particular response. I don’t have access to the poll itself, so who knows how bad it was. But at the same time these results probably do reflect a reality, even if not within these exact percentages, that we should be coming to grips with if we want to think about where America is going.
FYI says
..Which is funny when you realize that allah discriminates against “those whose faces have been blackened” koran 3:106 .Of course if it already blackened..i am afraid you are doomed anyway.
A black face disqualifies anyone from allah’s pardise koran 3:107.So there are no black people in allah’s paradise or Jews or Christians.koran 3:107 But then muhamed was a slave trader in African people{sahih muslim3901}Lovely guy mohammed,eh?Best wishes and cuddles be upon him!
allah will not tolerate a black face most likely because he sees them …as slaves and not equal to Arabs.
koran 3:106-107 Check it yourself…allah judges by complexion
Bexarkat says
In addition to being a pedophile, however “great civil rights” organizations such as CAIR, insist we not judge Mohammed by today’s standards, as he was, according to them, “a man of his times.”.
Peter Burrows says
Verse 33:21 in the Sayyid Mawdudi translation begins: “Surely there was a good example for you in the Messenger of Allah —” to which Mawdudi adds this footnote: “It can also be translated as follows:”Surely there IS (rather than there WAS) a good example for you in the Messenger of Allah …” (My caps for his italicized)
rick says
to FYI You are correct. I checked and on “judgment” day” those who have black faces, that will be proof of “…that is [the result of] the darkness of the countenance of the heart when it pursues the soul that seeks its shares [of this world] and turns away from the luminous aspect of the truth…” How anyone can consider Islam the “luminous aspect of the truth” is beyond me.
FYI says
There are different korans-the koran is NOT perfectly preserved.. and islamic sites [desperately}fiddle the Arabic.
In the Pickthall version i use in koran 5:116, allah gets Christian Theology laughably wrong and asks a question so dumb it can only come from a HUMAN mind that is puzzled by what Christians believe
“O Jesus son of Mary!Didst thou say unto mankind:take me and my mother for two gods beside allah?”
So allah thinks it is {allah,Jesus,mary}!MARY!Where does allah get Mary?
“allah is knower of all things”
koran 2:29
But clearly not Christian Theology ?So allah does not know ALL things and is thus not omniscient showing the koran to be provably false
How can allah be God if he is provably NOT omniscient as he claims?
The muslims hide such things so don’t trust muslim websites and there are different korans so beware!
If someone said Christians worship 3 gods Jesus,Mary and Joseph you would laugh.
If allah thinks Christians worship 3 gods allah,Jesus and Mary you have to laugh.You must.
And Jews don’t believe in anyone called “Ezra is the son of allah”
Keys says
Yes, and I am sure you remember Islamic texts referring to black people as “raisin heads”, and referring to Mohammad as white skinned.
David Wood has Youtube videos on this topic. For those who have not seen these: on Youtube search David Wood on Blacks and Islam. Also check out his video on Islam and slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbOhLJHcFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-94RtBXjn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caELwu0F-Qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbOhLJHcFo
(NB: the second Youtube video above seems to have been “prefaced” by a hacker before getting to Woods commentary??
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Just makes one wonder what Mohammad Ali, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Louis Farrakhan, Janet Jackson, Dave Chapelle, Shaquille O’Neal(?), Mike Tyson, Linda Sarsour (ha-ha), and many other American blacks are thinking! Not to mention at least 40% of Africa!
Mo says
That’s because they’ve been poisoned (especially in the last few years since the convicted violent felon OD’d in police custody) that they are also oppressed by the evil W man. Of course they’re going to see the death cultists as also “oppressed.” It’s sickening.
Walter Sieruk says
This terrible judgment of too many American young people about who is right of wrong and likewise what is right and wrong might be because of the left-wing Red/Green alliance infiltrated ideology in all levels of the American educational system.
That despicable fiend Joe Biden along with other of the far -left with their awful scheme to indoctrinated, as in brainwash impressionable young people in the American public system into the mindset of accepting and embracing the politically correct ideology and Islamic propaganda of multiculturalism under the guise of “education.”
First, It should be made clear the America and her school system was not founded of the horrendously evil and horrible junk as multiculturalism and CRT and WOKE as well as other nonsensical forms of PC philosophy including Marxism.
It’s back to the important things that children need to be taught in school .Which are reading writing and mathematics.
To put this in another way, school students would much better off studying economics based on the precepts of Adam Smith and the laws of motion by Isaac Newton instead of the worthless philosophy of cultural relativity.
Second, much of the greatness of the history of the United States of America is because this nation was, mostly founded and based upon the Judo- Christian percepts and the concepts and values of Bible based Christianity and not Islamic precepts and “values.”
As the second President of the United States, John Adams, had, so well, declared when he wrote that “The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity …. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are eternal and immutable as the existence of God.”
SKA says
But Daniel indicated this survey was based in the UK. So it does not accurately reflect the views of US youngsters. Remember the large Muslim population of the UK whose purists revere the “Noble Nineteen” of 9/11. I would also hazzard a guess that surveys out if the UK or continental might also reflect anti-U.S. sentiments who might view any enemies of the U.S., whether Bin Ladin or Putin, in a favorable light. But your observations about the need for reform in our educational system are spot on!
Reziac says
I have noticed that current idolization of various Muslim figures is very like the panting after Che Guevara, a couple generations back.
Walter Sieruk says
This awful confused way of thinking of so many American youth about what is right and what is wrong who is right of wrong may also result of the leftist politically correct ideology that has infected and corrupted all levels of the American educational system.
One of the many Politically Correct idea’s which is tragically alive and well the United States and the United kingdom we well as Continental Europe is the philosophy of multiculturalism which many Westerners are infected by that worthless , sick and unrealistic philosophy which gave birth to multiculturalism
With its teaching of the concept that all cultures are equal, because this multiculturalism concept teaches the foolishness that all values derive their meaning within the specific social content. This folly of thinking leads, or misleads, many people to view every position as only “opinion” and that truth is only relevant to the person or society holding that view. In other words, discovering actual truth in impossible.
Multiculturalism is absurd, nonsensical and contradictory. For example, to say “finding the truth is impossible” Is a statement of contradiction. For in making that statement that is saying, in essence, “I have found the truth which is finding the truth is not possible.” It should be obvious that this “Cultural War’ needs to and should have a solidly based in and on truth and not by a worthless “war of opinions.”
With the Left Wing, with their mindset of multiculturalism, they claim that there is no absolute truth but only “opinion.” On every subject. Of course, the leftist who make that claim do so as an “absolute truth.” What a flip –flop!
Two other examples of the falseness of multiculturalism. with its teaching that everything is only “opinion.”
First is in the late 1970’s two guys said “There are so many different religions that no one can ever know the truth about religion.” They were really saying that statement so dogmatically that they were self-contradicting. For they were saying that they know the truth about religion that is not one can know the truth about religion.
Second, a shallow man in the 1980’s said when asked the question “Why do you always small talk ? You don’t ever talk about a topic that might have some value, as politics? After all , all thing are related “ That shallow man replied “There are so many different political ideas that finding the true one is unattainable and all thing are not related.” The wisdom-less man was saying that he obtained the truth which is the he can’t obtain the truth and who does can is really truthfully say that all thing are not related in he can’t find the truth. How foolish, an obvious contradiction. What is needed to counter this nonsense multiculturalism is the concept of “Absolutism.” Which a definition of this, with the scope of the topic, is “An absolute standard or principle .”
In this cultural war it’s the Bible with its absolute standards and principles to stand firm against the extreme folly and foolishness of the multiculturalism concept. In conclusion, in this War of Ideas a firm foundation for truth may be found in the Bible and not the weak folly of multiculturalism in which everything is “opinion.”
Hoi Polloi says
Homeschool. Even the most right-leaning HUM teacher I know teaches like a leftie.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If by HUM you mean the humanities, why is that a necessary subject again? (I never had it in school nor college nor university)
Hoi Polloi says
It’s as high as 12 HUMs for a Bachelor’s even in non-HUM majors. It’s an employment program for those profs and thereby support for universities that profit from cranking them out and consequently develop those requirements.
SteveM says
Multi cultural doesnt work. Only place it somewhat works are totalitarian police states like Singapore or when you are big enough to separate like Russia who can sequester thier Muslims in dagastan or chechnya
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I just wish such organizations also broke it out by muslim vs non-muslim. It would be interesting to see what percentage of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists & other denominations had positive vs negative views of Osama in particular, and jihad in general