A small step but in the right direction!
This article decries the conflation of Arabs and Muslims and yet aids and abets it by lumping Arabs and Muslims together in the headline and throughout the piece. Yet it also correctly notes that most Arabs in the U.S. are not Muslims and most Muslims worldwide are not Arabs. Bringing Arabs into the poll at all is an attempt to further the false Leftist/Islamic supremacist claim that criticism of Islamic jihad terror and supremacism is nothing more than racism.
Anyway, “Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby, attributed worsening attitudes to negative news about Arabs and Muslims.” Note the careful language. Jim Zogby is not saying that people have a negative view of Muslims because of the increasing violence and virulence of jihad terror groups around the world, but because of negative news about Muslims. The implication is that if foes of jihad terror were silenced, people would no longer have negative views of Muslims. Zogby is once again attempting to propagate a sleight-of-hand common among Islamic supremacists: when Islamic jihadists commit violence and justify it by referring to the Qur’an and Muhammad, and then non-Muslims report on their words and deeds, the non-Muslims, not the jihadis, are held at fault. This has been the stance of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for years: it decries the “linking of Islam with terrorism,” and then pretends that non-Muslims, not Islamic jihadists, are doing the linking. Its goal is to silence those non-Muslim critics so that the jihad can advance unopposed, unhindered, and unchallenged.
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