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Originally Posted by hiredgun
I'm sorry you find my experiences implausible, highthief. They are mine, and true, although I don't make any particular claims as to how far they can be generalized. My connections to Pakistan are largely friends and family, and as you can imagine, it would not be easy to support anti-American terror when you have loved ones living in the bullseye.
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I'm not saying you are being untruthful, but often people hear things but don't file them away, especially when they may find themselves in a position of conflict between conflicting ideologies and loyalties. It happened in Europe in WW2, it happens in Israel and Palestine today, and I am pretty sure it happens to a large number of Muslims, also (Americans too, for that matter).
Polls such as this:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1766106.htm
lend some credence to the idea that support for terrorism, while hardly universal as some on Team Bush like to claim, is nevertheless, substantial even in nations like Indonesia, a somewhat less hard line Muslim nation than many others.
And this one:
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=248