{"id":291,"date":"2008-03-03T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/what-a-billion-muslims-really-think\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T06:43:22","slug":"what-a-billion-muslims-really-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/what-a-billion-muslims-really-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Billion Muslims Really Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44454000\/jpg\/_44454711_62cbc21e-348b-408d-bf76-b27f39503373.jpg\" title=\"93% of Muslims describe themselves as moderate\" alt=\"93% of Muslims describe themselves as moderate\" align=\"left\" height=\"152\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"203\" \/> \t\t\t\t\tMost Muslims &#8216;desire democracy&#8217;. <\/strong><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The largest survey to date of Muslims worldwide suggests the vast majority want Western democracy and freedoms, but do not want them to be imposed. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The poll by Gallup of more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations found most wanted the West to instead focus on changing its negative view of Muslims and Islam. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The huge survey began following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The overwhelming majority of those asked condemned them and subsequent attacks, citing religious reasons.  <!-- E SF --><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The poll, which claims to represent the views of 90% the world&#8217;s 1.3 billion Muslims, is to be published next month as part of a book entitled Who Speaks For Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7267100.stm\" title=\"BBC news\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Muslims &#8216;desire democracy&#8217;. The largest survey to date of Muslims worldwide suggests the vast majority want Western democracy and freedoms, but do not want them to be imposed. The poll by Gallup of more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations found most wanted the West to instead focus on changing its negative view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,19,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}