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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump proposal to ban Muslims from US relies on debunked poll from pro-Israel think tank [View all]
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/proposal-debunked-thinktank
Yesterday Donald Trump released a shocking proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Trumps idea rests on research from the Center for Security Policy, a neocon think tank run by Frank Gaffney who has a long history of pro-Israel advocacy and has been called one of Americas most notorious Islamophobes by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Trumps statement quotes a July 2015 poll from the Center for Security Policy and claims that 25% of Muslims living in the United States agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad. The poll, which received much coverage in the right-wing media, was debunked as soon as it was released. Writing in the Huffington Post Nathan Lean and Jordan Denari explained:
this survey should not be taken seriously. It comes from an organization with a history of producing dubious claims and studies about the threat of shariah, and was administered using an unreliable methodology. Its proponents seize upon its shoddy findings, exaggerating and misrepresenting them to American audiences, and falsely claim that the survey data represents the views of Muslims nationwide.
Yesterday Donald Trump released a shocking proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Trumps idea rests on research from the Center for Security Policy, a neocon think tank run by Frank Gaffney who has a long history of pro-Israel advocacy and has been called one of Americas most notorious Islamophobes by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Trumps statement quotes a July 2015 poll from the Center for Security Policy and claims that 25% of Muslims living in the United States agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad. The poll, which received much coverage in the right-wing media, was debunked as soon as it was released. Writing in the Huffington Post Nathan Lean and Jordan Denari explained:
this survey should not be taken seriously. It comes from an organization with a history of producing dubious claims and studies about the threat of shariah, and was administered using an unreliable methodology. Its proponents seize upon its shoddy findings, exaggerating and misrepresenting them to American audiences, and falsely claim that the survey data represents the views of Muslims nationwide.
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Trump proposal to ban Muslims from US relies on debunked poll from pro-Israel think tank [View all]
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2015
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I don't believe the poster is supporting Mondoweiss or Trump, the poster is just saying
LiberalArkie
Dec 2015
#2
Oh I think that poster does support Mondoweiss, he posts most of the garbage they produce there,
King_David
Dec 2015
#18
Frank Gaffney in Israel, Part 6: Tel Aviv from Judea & Samaria - actually there are 7 parts
azurnoir
Dec 2015
#3
You stated Gaffney and his think tank has nothing to do with Israel I showed you that indeed they do
azurnoir
Dec 2015
#19
No kidding, and he does have support from and is connected to Israel's causes.
Jefferson23
Dec 2015
#8
Israel is a predominately right wing government ideology regarding the occupation and a peace deal.
Jefferson23
Dec 2015
#10
They point out hypocrisy regarding Israeli policy. I/P has many bigots respresented
Jefferson23
Dec 2015
#17
Not a good idea for anyone to rely solely on opinion pieces but it happens, sometimes I think
Jefferson23
Dec 2015
#39
The Zionist Organization of America gave the Brandeis Award to Ted Cruz last year
oberliner
Dec 2015
#31