good points!  and glad to have someone's take on it who actually read the
article.

(about subject line, yes, it was kind of meant to mock the study's
disingenuous headline)

--- \/	 FROM yvorobey Æ umich.edu AT 05.06.23 13:20 (Today)   \/ ---

> More than the number of anti-bombing mullahs.  My suspicion after reading the
> article, though, is that the correlation in Palestine is quite strong.  I do
> agree with Danny that the headline was quite misleading, as was, of
> course, his
> subject line...  The study really only focused on one indicator of private
> worship (frequency of prayers) and one indicator of public worship (frequency
> of mosque attendance). I get the impression from reading a variety of sources
> that mullahs in the PA (palestinian authority) range between
> "understanding" to
> openly supportive of terrorism, though few may actually recruit people for
it.
> The story would certainly be different in a place like Ann Arbor, though,
> again, I get the impression that there are not very many tears shed over
> innocent Israelis dying in terrorist attacks.
>
> In any case, the important distinction made in the study between public and
> private worship does make the results much clearer (and fills me with some
> optimism). Particularly, it does empirically reinforce (for me) something
I've
> already believed: that Mulsim religious leaders are a significant part of the
> problem. Of course, all the obvious qualifications of this statement
> apply. But
> it also means that if those religious leaders who oppose it become more
> outspoken and more numerous, the balance may well shift, and shift quickly.
>
> Eugene
>
> Quoting Kevin Lochner  :
>
> > how many pro-bombing mullah's would it really take to effect a positive
> > correlation?
> >
> > - kevin
> >
> >
> > "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
> > -- G.W. Bush, --Reuters, May 5, 2000 (Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Erica O'Connor wrote:
> >
> >> Given that this study is even ligitimate, sounds like
> >> it found something not all that surprising, namely,
> >> sitting around the house being devout isn't as
> >> inspiring to a would-be-suicide-terrorist-supporter as
> >> going to a big religious gathering of like-minded
> >> individuals every day.
> >> -Erica
> >> Quote included to to please Daniel anyway:
> >> "Man will not be free until the last king is strangled
> >> with the entrails of the last priest."
> >> -by I forget who, Diderot?
> >>
> >>
> >> --- Daniel Reeves	 wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm not thinking about much else but thesis for next
> >> > several weeks but
> >> > this just struck me as amusing.	My (cynical) take
> >> > is that a study linked
> >> > religiosity to terrorism and then they decided that
> >> > wasn't so PC so they
> >> > found some obscure religiosity metric that they
> >> > failed to correlate with
> >> > terrorism and used that as the headline to make it
> >> > sound like they found
> >> > the opposite of what they really found.	Or more
> >> > likely the whole study's
> >> > just BS.  Ok, I'm going back in my hole now.
> >> >
> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> > From: U-M News Service
> >> >	
> >> > Subject: Michigan Today NewsE - June 2005
> >> >
> >> > UofM News
> >> >
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> >> > ...
> >> >
> >> > Personal devotion to Islam is unrelated to support
> >> > for suicide bombing
> >> > among Palestinian Muslims, according to a study at
> >> > the Institute for
> >> > Social Research. But the more often Muslims attended
> >> > mosques, the more
> >> > likely they were to support suicide terrorism.
> >> > (Islamic text image, from
> >> > U-M Museum of Art.)
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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