In US, 44% Say Restrict Muslims

From NewsMax:

The survey found 44 percent favored at least some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. Forty-eight percent said liberties should not be restricted in any way.

The survey showed that 27 percent of respondents supported requiring all Muslim Americans to register where they lived with the federal government. Twenty-two percent favored racial profiling to identify potential terrorist threats. And 29 percent thought undercover agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations to keep tabs on their activities and fund-raising.

Cornell student researchers questioned 715 people in the nationwide telephone poll conducted this fall. The margin of error was 3.6 percentage points.

Here's another slippery slope to keep our eyes on... There is a difference between increased scrutiny and restricting rights of the American citizenry. Some of the tactics outlined above are reasonable, some are not. We are engaged in a war that has a LOT of gray areas in it, this shouldn't be one of them.

9:55AM Update

Orin Kerr looks behind the numbers at the Volokh Conspiracy and discovers something everyone should be aware of when it comes to these numbers: the pollsters categorized people based upon their answers to four questions, none of which explicitly stated curtailing Muslim-american civil liberties. Once again, the pollsters started with a conclusion and made the numbers fit...

Islamofascism Delenda Est!