US Muslims Are Overwhelmingly Against Civilian Bombing

I found it interesting how different mainstreet sources deliberately distorted this piece of news to grab a headline by featuring the first line below. Note that the catagory includes often, sometimes, and rarely, an answer so broad that concievably many people took the sarcastic definition of "rarely" to mean never or nearly so.
It is notable that 53% of American Muslims have had a more difficult life since 9/11. But again, the question seems of dubious value. The majority of Americans of all ethnic orientations would say life has been more difficult since 9/11.
National Post

The survey found 26 percent of younger Muslims believed suicide bombings are often, sometimes or rarely justified, compared with 69 percent who believed such attacks can never be accepted. By contrast, 13 percent of all U.S. Muslims felt suicide attacks could be justified often, sometimes or rarely, while 78 percent completely rejected the deadly tactic that has been used by Al Qaeda and other Islamist militants. The poll, conducted from Jan. 24 to April 30 in four languages, had a 5 percent margin of error.


"It's not something they see themselves engaging in. It's more of them seeing what's happening abroad and ... feeling that in these situations, suicide bombings are justified for others," said Farid Senzai of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a Michigan-based research group that studies U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Mr. Senzai attended the news conference as a member of the Pew survey project's outside advisory board.


Experts said the level of Muslim youth support for suicide bombings was similar to patterns seen in Europe. Support in some degree for suicide bombings among younger European Muslims ranged from 22 percent in Germany to 29 percent in Spain, 35 percent in Britain and 42 percent in France, according to a May 2006 Pew poll.


Pew estimates that there are 2.35 million Muslims living in the United States, a tiny fraction of an overall U.S. population of 300 million people. But Muslim population estimates vary widely, ranging as high as 7 million, because the U.S. Census Bureau does not ask about religious affiliations in its national surveys.


Pollsters said they were surprised to find that only 40 percent of U.S. Muslims believed Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The survey suggested 53 percent of Muslims believe their life has become more difficult since the 2001 attacks because of discrimination or government surveillance. But the findings also showed that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims are either "pretty happy" or "very happy" with their lives.