Let the scales fall from your eyes

As with most polls, this one isn't so much measuring reality as it is measuring people's perceptions of reality. Or to put it another way, it's tallying how many people are duped by the dominant ideology of this bogus "clash of civilizations". Note, for example, that Nigeria is the only nation that exceeds the U.S. in the percentage of people who think "differences of religion/culture" are the cause of Islam-West tensions. And that Lebanon and Mexico seem to have the most clarity about the issue.