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• [1] Shana from South Orange, NJ May 24, 2007 - 10:17AM

  Ask Americans if bombing of civilian targets is ever justified to defend America against it's enemies, and I think you'll find more that 13 percent responding "yes." The Muslum American study seems shocking to many because "suicide" is attatched to the word "bombing", and so often, this type of small scale warfare is attatched in our minds to terrorism and Islamists. Americans never see themselves as the terrorists.

  
  
• [2] Jeffrey Slott from Queens, NY May 24, 2007 - 10:24AM

  "Assimilate" is kind of a scary word, especially to young people.

  
  
• [3] James Conlon from Queens, NY May 24, 2007 - 10:37AM

  If you are disturbed by the 13% figure, remember: we just witnessed a Republican debate where all but one candidate were falling over themselves to endorse the use of torture.

  Muslims have no monopoly on violence.

  
  
• [4] James from New York, NY May 24, 2007 - 10:59AM

  David Harris says there is no link between 9/11 and Israeli's (and sadly, my country's) policies. I beg to differ -- the dispossesion of the Palestinian people is a major recruiting tool by terrorists and until this issue is resolved, it seems clear we'll have this endless war.

  
  
• [5] Mika May 24, 2007 - 11:22AM

  Thank you for addressing this topic. We've seen too much fear mongering and too few facts about this in the mainstream media.

  
  
• [6] Tina May 25, 2007 - 01:33AM

  I don't understand why you invited the third guest on the show - what does the American Jewish Committee have to do with a study on Muslim Americans? It seems a political move, almost as if you feel you need to have a Jewish perspective to make the conversation legitimate. Must all of these conversations be politicied? And I agree with the poster above - of course Israeli policies against the Palestinians are a huge rallying tool for extremists.

  
  
• [7] amy from nyc May 29, 2007 - 06:39PM

  To consider - what of Arab and UN policies against the Palestinians? Why won't Arab countries allow the Palestinians to settle and become citizens in their countries? Why have the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the first generation of Palestinian refugees also been given "refugee" status, when in no other location in the world does the term "refugee" apply to multiple generations of families born of refugees? Israel has given the Palestinians land so they may develop their own nation. The majority of the Arab world seem interested only in using these people as pawns in their war games.

  If the Israel-Palestinian conflict didn't exist, terrorists such as the 9/11 hijackers would find a multitude of other global/western problems to employ in their propaganda machines. Muslims certainly have no monopoly on violence, as we all sadly know; violence and aggression are part of the human condition. But we must examine these issues and confront them with knowledge.