Landmark Study: Devout Muslims Hate West
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
A groundbreaking study strongly linking Muslim religiosity to prejudice and hostility towards the West is “distressing,” a Kuwaiti researcher who specializes in the psychology of religion has revealed.
Dr. Bashar Albaghli, who studied Muslims from 17 Arab countries between 18–70 years of age, says he expected to find a link between Islamic fundamentalism and West hatred, but was shocked to discover “even intrinsic (moderate) Muslim religiosity” strongly predicting prejudice towards the West.
“In fact, the only groups that had favorable attitudes toward the West were the secular and nonreligious Arabs,” Albaghli, a behavioral psychologist at the prestigious University of St. Andrews, Scotland, explained on the Jihad Watch website.
Albaghli revealed that he was also “quite surprised by the response of many Western universities that were hesitant to invest in this research” titled “The Link between Muslim Religiosity and Negative Attitudes toward the West: An Arab Study” and published by The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.
“I was asking myself why is it okay to study and examine other religions but all of a sudden it might not be a good idea to study Islam? After all, this is science, and science should remain objective,” he writes.
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