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Sebagian Besar Warga Muslim Tolak Al Qaeda

| Egidius Patnistik | Rabu, 2 Mei 2012 | 08:05 WIB

WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com - Sebagian besar warga Muslim di negara-negara dengan mayoritas penduduk beragama Islam memiliki pandangan negatif terhadap jaringan organisasi militan Al Qaeda. Demikian hasil jajak pendapat terbaru Pew Research Center, lembaga riset yang bermarkas di Washington DC, AS, yang dirilis Senin (30/4).

Jajak pendapat, yang menjadi bagian dari Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, itu, digelar di lima negara berpenduduk mayoritas Muslim, yakni Mesir, Jordania, Lebanon, Turki, dan Pakistan.

Hasil jajak pendapat menunjukkan, 71 persen responden di Mesir memiliki pandangan negatif terhadap Al Qaeda dan hanya 21 persen yang memiliki pandangan positif terhadap gerakan tersebut.

Di Jordania, 77 persen responden menyatakan tak suka dengan Al Qaeda dan hanya 15 persen yang mendukung langkah jaringan itu. Di Turki, perbandingan responden yang mendukung dan menolak Al Qaeda adalah 73 persen banding 6 persen; sementara di Lebanon, hanya 2 persen responden yang mendukung Al Qaeda. Sisanya sebesar 98 persen berpandangan negatif terhadap gerakan militan itu.

Di Pakistan, sebanyak 55 persen responden menolak Al Qaeda dan hanya 13 persen yang mendukung. Namun, pihak Pew mengakui tidak menggelar jajak pendapat di seluruh wilayah Pakistan.

Beberapa wilayah yang dihuni 18 persen dari total jumlah penduduk Pakistan tak bisa disurvei karena dianggap terlalu berbahaya bagi para petugas jajak pendapat.

Berubah drastis

Pew juga menyatakan, dukungan kepada Al Qaeda sudah mulai menyusut bahkan sebelum pemimpin gerakan itu, Osama bin Laden, tewas di tangan pasukan Navy SEAL AS di Abbottabad, Pakistan, tahun lalu.

Di Jordania, misalnya, sekitar 61 persen responden jajak pendapat pada 2005 mengaku percaya para pemimpin Al Qaeda akan berbuat kebaikan. Namun, setelah serangan bom bunuh diri di tiga hotel di Amman, Jordania, November tahun itu, pendapat masyarakat langsung berubah drastis dan pada jajak pendapat tahun berikutnya, hanya 24 persen responden yang masih mendukung Al Qaeda.

Marjin kesalahan dalam jajak pendapat di setiap negara bervariasi antara 4,2-5,2 angka persentase. Pew melakukan jajak pendapat ini akhir Maret hingga awal April lalu.

Pew menambahkan, dukungan kepada Al Qaeda juga merosot tajam di Indonesia dan Palestina. (AP/DHF) Sumber : Kompas Cetak

Released: April 30, 2012

On Anniversary of bin Laden’s Death, Little Backing of al Qaeda

Survey Report

A year after the death of its leader, al Qaeda is widely unpopular among Muslim publics. A new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, conducted March 19 to April 13, 2012, finds majorities – and mostly large majorities – expressing negative views of the terrorist group in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and Lebanon.
In Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals, 13% of Muslims hold a favorable view of al Qaeda, 55% an unfavorable view, and roughly three-in-ten (31%) offer no opinion.
Support for the organization is in the single digits among Turkish and Lebanese Muslims. In Jordan, just 15% express a positive opinion, essentially unchanged from last year, but down significantly from 34% in 2010.  Al Qaeda receives its highest ratings in Egypt, where 21% hold a favorable and 71% an unfavorable opinion.
Before his death, support for bin Laden had waned considerably among Muslims around the world.  Perhaps the most striking decline occurred in Jordan, where in 2005 61% had expressed confidence in bin Laden to do the right thing in world affairs.  The next year, this number plummeted to 24% following al Qaeda suicide attacks in the nation’s capital, Amman.  By 2011, only 13% expressed confidence in him.
Support for bin Laden also declined steeply over time among Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as the Palestinian territories.  Palestinians, however, remained more supportive than other publics – in 2011, 34% still expressed confidence in the al Qaeda leader.

Survey Methods

Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Survey results are based on national samples. For further details on sample designs, see below.
The descriptions below show the margin of sampling error based on all interviews conducted in that country. For results based on the full sample in a given country, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus the margin of error. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.