Pew Study Tries to Whitewash American Muslim Attitudes.

This is a nice example of bury the lede.

The latest Pew study has this fuzzy, huggy, shiny headline: "Little Support for Terrorism Among American Muslims".

Well, isn't that special? How comforting-what great news.

Here's one of the more interesting little nuggets:

"When asked whether they think of themselves first as an American or as a Muslim, 47% of Muslims in the U.S. think of themselves first in terms of their religion, while 28% identify themselves first as Americans and 18% volunteer that they identify as both."

Also, the Beeeeeg Satan is the best place for Muslim women: "six-in-ten Muslim Americans (62%) say that the quality of life for Muslim women in the U.S. is better than the quality of life for women in most Muslim countries".

And this little nugget: "fewer than half of Muslim Americans -- just four-in-10 -- accept the fact that groups of Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. Roughly a third (32%) express no opinion as to who was behind the attacks, while 28% flatly disbelieve that Arabs conducted the attacks. Fewer highly religious Muslim Americans believe that groups of Arabs carried out the attacks than do less religious Muslims. The survey also finds that those who say suicide bombings in defense of Islam can often or sometimes be justified are more disbelieving than others that Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 attacks."

For me, the story here is that almost half of American Muslims see themselves first according to sharia, and second according to their national citizenship. Yet-despite this, they love living in the free world. They want the free world toys-but more than half would be happier in an American sharia state.

And almost half of American Muslims "just 4 in 10" according to Pew, deny that Muslims perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. That is pretty disturbing. Another third of them have "no opinion" which loosely translates from jihadspeak to "it was the Joooooooos", or "it was Booooooosh".

I'm thinking this study is pretty alarming. But-then again, I'm not so bright.