More on Peretz's Poll

Glenn Greenwald on the necessity of providing context to "horrifying" poll numbers that indicate that some 13 percent of American Muslims believe attacks on civilians are "rarely", "sometimes" or "often" justified:

A rather substantial 24% of Americans thought that such attacks are justified "often" or "sometimes," while another 27% thought they were justified in rare cases. By stark contrast, only 11% of Iranians think such attacks are justified "often" or "sometimes," with a mere further 5% agreeing they can be justified in rare cases. Similar results were found with the series of other questions regarding violence deliberately aimed at civilians -- including women, children and the elderly. Americans believed such attacks could be justifiable to a substantially higher degree than Iranians.

Can we put the hysteria to rest now? Of course not.