But…But… These Stats Don’t Fit My Worldview!!

Wow, I haven’t read this one before.  How can this polling data fit into an Islamophobic worldview?  (Then again, there’s no need to fit it in if you’re willing to ignore it entirely… a more likely response…)

Courtesy, yet again, of Glenn Greenwald:

One of the questions they asked was whether “bombings and other types of attacks intentionally aimed at civilians are sometimes justified”? Americans approved of such attacks by a much larger margin than Iranians — 51-16% (and a much, much larger margin than American Muslims — 51-13%):

A rather substantial 24% of Americans thought that such attacks are justified “often” or “sometimes,” while another 27% thought they were justified in rare cases. By stark contrast, only 11% of Iranians think such attacks are justified “often” or “sometimes,” with a mere further 5% agreeing they can be justified in rare cases. Similar results were found with the series of other questions regarding violence deliberately aimed at civilians — including women, children and the elderly. Americans believed such attacks could be justifiable to a substantially higher degree than Iranians.

Do me a favor guys.  At least chew on this a while before you spit it out.