It's the politics stupid

The people of the world are not as naïve as their political leaders would have you believe nor as stupid as the politicians would hope for. It would seem that they, in general, they see through the "clash of civilisations" rhetoric surrounding the "war on terra" and understand that the root cause is really about political power. The worldwide poll, conducted for the BBC, found that those in the UK, France, Mexico, Canada and Italy were most likely to believe that there is common ground to be found between the West and Islam. Even in the US 64% believed this but 31% felt that conflict is inevitable. These are probably the same people who think that the world is going to end this year!

The full poll results are to be found here (PDF).