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Originally Posted by fotze
I remember when this guy I worked with told me that all the jews that worked in the World Trade Centre were told not to come to work. I wanted to smack him in the head with a baseball bat. Not for being offensive but for being offensively stupid.
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A Pew poll found only 40% of Muslim Americans believe Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks.
In the months after 9/11, a poll found that roughly 90% of Muslims across many countries, including Indonesia, believed that 9/11 was a Jewish plot and 4000 Jews who were employees in the buildings were telephoned the night before and warned not to go to the WTC the next day.
What I've noticed about polls in general, across many cultures, is that anywhere from 25% to 40% of a population appears to routinely ascribe conspiracy to any number of unconnected topics.
The "why" of people believing in a conspiracy, the pyschology of it, is often far more interesting than the actually conspiracy theory itself.
Cowperson