Mike
Widespread concerns about extremism in Muslim nations, and little support
for it http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/05/extremism-in-muslim-nations/#more-267065
Pakistan
is another example. The terrible violence Pakistanis have experienced at the
hands of the Taliban and other groups over the past decade has led many to
reject violent extremism. In
2004,
41% of Pakistani Muslims said suicide bombing can often or sometimes be
justified;by 2014 only
3% held this view.
In
2009, when the Taliban occupied
Pakistan’s Swat Valley and threatened to drive even closer to the
nation’s capital, Islamabad, opposition to the extremist group jumped
dramatically. In 2008, just 33% of Pakistanis had an unfavorable view of the
Taliban, butthis
rose to 70% in the 2009 survey. In Pakistan and
elsewhere, once terrorist violence and extremist rule has become a reality,
people have rejected it.
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