Muslims Are No Different, or Why Bill Maher’s Blood Libel Is Bigotry

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39. Please note my previous reply to rug

Please note my previous reply to rug about the actual prevalence of support for draconian and violent punishments across the Muslims world-

Though Pew never asked if people think its ok to kill someone to insults the prophet, they had a question assessing a similar attitude about execution as a punishment for leaving the Muslim religion. Now, note that this question was very specifically worded to ask for support for enacting a law in the present day in the respondent's country. You can see results here:

http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=1184

It's actually not 50%, but an overwhelming majority- over 75% even in some countries that supported execution for people who were born muslim that chose to leave their religion.

Pew surveys are conducted in a number of regional languages and try to sample people from all over these countries to get a representative sample.

Given the strong support for other draconian measures in a number of Muslim majority countries, I would not at all be surprised if more than 50% of Muslims actually do support death for anyone who insults their prophet. The question has not yet been asked. I hope Pew asks this question for the future Global attitudes study, so we don't have to argue about which one of us is actually holding the inaccurate stereotypes.