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The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its groupies on the Left, such as the Center for American Progress (CAP), the ACLU, and the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender, have spun out a series of patently absurd conspiracy theories employing the "Islamophobia" canard, which are designed to intimidate critics of Islamic extremism into silence. The latest example of this vitriolic attack campaign is a CAP report titled "Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America."
However, the more these groups pursue this misguided agenda, the more they expose their ignorance with respect to both reality and the actual interests of the Muslim community. This is illustrated by the results of Pew Research Center's latest public opinion survey of Muslim Americans, released on August 30, 2011. These results confirm that Islamic extremism in the U.S. is a real problem – not something made up by so-called "Islamophobes" — and that many in the Muslim American community fault their leaders for failing to address it properly.
Thirteen percent of the Muslim Americans surveyed by Pew refused to rule out suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilians in all circumstances. The results broke down this way – 8% said that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are either "often" or "sometimes" justified to defend Islam from its enemies, and 5% were willing to entertain such terrorist tactics in "rare" circumstances. Extrapolating from the survey results, out of the estimated 1.8 million Muslim adults (18 or over) living in the United States in 2011, this means that nearly 150,000 Muslim Americans would appear to condone suicide bombing or other violence against civilians "often" or "sometimes," and another 90,000 would support it in "rare" circumstances.