Editors note: This is cross-posted from Potomac Tea Party Report, my other blog, here.
WND poll: Four in 10 said Muslims in America should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Islamic Shariah law.
That is the crux of this article a few days ago from World Net Daily.
Another interesting statistic is that 46% want to limit free speech and see criminal prosecution of anyone who criticizes Islam. So, much for the myth that Muslim immigrants who come to America want to be just like us, and to share our Constitution based on freedom of speech and the liberties that spring from that.
Here is the story from reporter Bob Unruh:
Nearly half of 600 Muslim-American citizens polled who plan to vote in the 2012 presidential election believe parodies of Muhammad should be prosecuted criminally in the U.S., and one in eight say the offense is so serious violators should face the death penalty.
The results came in a groundbreaking scientific poll for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. It was taken Oct. 22-26 and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.98 percentage points.
The poll also found 40 percent of Muslims in America believe they should not be judged by U.S. law and the Constitution, but by Shariah standards.
And the big winner among Muslim-Americans in the presidential election is Barack Obama, the poll found. More than 72 percent said they are definitely supporting Obama, and another 8.5 percent are leaning that direction. Only 11 percent are for Romney.
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“Almost half of those Muslims surveyed – an astonishing 46 percent – said they believe those Americans who offer criticism or parodies of Islam should face criminal charges,” said pollster Fritz Wenzel in an analysis of the survey’s results.
The poll was conducted among Muslims who have been here long enough to have gained citizenship:
Virtually all of the respondents (98 percent) are American citizens and 97 percent are registered to vote.
So how many people are we talking about?
If this (total Muslim population) is correct and the poll is fairly representative (although since the respondents are citizens one would think the general Muslim non-citizen population would even be more anti-US Constitution than this group).
The Pew Research Center estimates America is home to some 2.6 million Muslims.
Then:
~ 1,040,000 Muslims in America want Shariah Law
~ 1,196,000 want you to be criminally prosecuted for criticizing Islam
~ 187,200 would like to see you executed for parodying Mohammed (Remember these respondents are 98% US citizens already, we are not talking about the third worlders who just got here!—ed)
~ 858,000 believe that Israel does not have a right to exist or were not sure.
~ One fifth of the Muslim men surveyed said they want more than one wife in America. Watch for it! After gay marriage the next big push for “human rights” will be polygamy!
Readers should know that through various LEGAL immigration programs (asylum, refugee resettlement, diversity visa lottery, temporary protected status, investor visas and the list goes on) we are bringing in thousands and thousands of Muslims to become permanent residents from Iraq, Somalia, Egypt, etc. to the US each year.
An afterthought: No wonder CAIR was so ticked-off at the Republicans for the anti-shariah law platform plank, here.