[Vision2020] [Spam 5.00] American Muslims More Patriotic than Fundamentalist Christians?

[lfalen]

I do not think this is true. There are fanatics in all religions and people loyal to the US in all religions. 
Despite their abuse during the Second World War, a lot of japanese Americans fought for the US. It does not matter whether people are Buddhist, Hindu or whatever there are those loyal and those that are not in all religions.
Roger  
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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:27:33 -0800
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Subject: [Spam 5.00] [Vision2020] American Muslims More Patriotic than Fundamentalist Christians?

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> http://www.salon.com/2011/11/29/are_evangelicals_a_national_security_threat/singleton
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> Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011 6:50 PM UTC2011-11-29T18:50:00Zl, M j, Y g:i A T Are
> evangelicals a national security threat?
> A new poll suggests that American Christians (unlike Muslims) are likely to
> put their faith before their country
> By David Sirota
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>  (Credit: iStockphoto/sjlocke)
>   If you have the stomach to listen to enough right-wing talk radio, or
> troll enough right-wing websites, you inevitably come upon fear-mongering
> about the Unassimilated Muslim. Essentially, this caricature suggests that
> Muslims in America are more loyal to their religion than to the United
> States, that such allegedly traitorous loyalties prove that Muslims refuse
> to assimilate into our nation and that Muslims are therefore a national
> security threat.
> Earlier this year, a Gallup
> poll<https://www.mail.uidaho.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://news.yahoo.com/muslims-most-loyal-american-religious-group-poll-says-002413175.html>illustrated
> just how apocryphal this story really is. It found that Muslim
> Americans are one of the most — if not the single most — loyal religious
> group to the United States. Now, comes the flip side from the Pew Research
> Center’s stunning
> findings<https://www.mail.uidaho.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://wwwpewglobal.org/2011/11/17/the-american-western-european-values-gap/?src=prc-headline>about
> other religious groups in America (emphasis mine):
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> American Christians are more likely than their Western European
> counterparts to think of themselves first in terms of their religion rather
> than their nationality; 46 percent of Christians in the U.S. see themselves
> primarily as Christians and the same number consider themselves Americans
> first. In contrast, majorities of Christians in France (90 percent),
> Germany (70 percent), Britain (63 percent) and Spain (53 percent) identify
> primarily with their nationality rather than their religion. Among
> Christians in the U.S., white evangelicals are especially inclined to
> identify first with their faith; 70 percent in this group see themselves
> first as Christians rather than as Americans, while 22 percent say they are
> primarily American.
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> If, as Islamophobes argue, refusing to assimilate is defined as expressing
> loyalty to a religion before loyalty to country, then this data suggests it
> is evangelical Christians who are very resistant to assimilation. And yet,
> few would cite these findings to argue that Christians pose a serious
> threat to America’s national security. Why the double standard?
> Because Christianity is seen as the dominant culture in America — indeed,
> Christianity and America are often portrayed as being nearly synonymous,
> meaning expressing loyalty to the former is seen as the equivalent to
> expressing loyalty to the latter. In this view, there is no such thing as
> separation between the Christian church and the American state — and every
> other culture and religion is expected to assimilate to Christianity. To do
> otherwise is to be accused of waging a “War on Christmas” — or worse, to be
> accused of being a disloyal to America and therefore a national security
> threat.
> Of course, a genuinely pluralistic America is one where — regardless of the
> religion in question — we see no conflict between loyalties to a religion
> and loyalties to country. In this ideal America, those who identify as
> Muslims first are no more or less “un-American” than Christians who do the
> same (personally, this is the way I see things).
> But if our politics and culture are going to continue to make extrapolative
> judgments about citizens’ patriotic loyalties based on their religious
> affiliations, then such judgments should at least be universal — and not so
> obviously selective or brazenly xenophobic.
>  [image: David Sirota]
> David Sirota is a best-selling author of the new book "Back to Our Future:
> How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now." He hosts the morning show
> on AM760 in Colorado. E-mail him at ds at davidsirota.com, follow him on
> Twitter @davidsirota or visit his website at
> www.davidsirota.com<https://www.mail.uidaho.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.davidsirota.com>
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