WALT DISNEY,
AGRABAH – Thirty percent of Republicans say they would
support bombing Agrabah, and 13 percent say they would oppose that measure.
Most, about 57
percent, were simply unsure. If you’re unclear about where Agrabah is,
that’s not because your Middle East geography is rusty. That’s because
Agrabah is the mythical fairy-tale setting of Disney’s 1992 animated film
“Aladdin.”
The town is also
the setting in the follow pu sequels “The Return of Jaafar” and “Aladdin and
the King of Thieves,” as well as an animated series based on the 1992
animation.
The survey was conducted by the left-leaning Public
Policy Polling, buried in 41 questions gauging 532 Republican primary
voters’ opinions about current politics.
In the same
poll, 28 percent of Republicans said they supported the World War II policy of
Japanese-American mass internment, and 49 percent said they opposed it.
Almost half of
those polled – 46 percent – said they would support the creation of a national
database of Muslims in the U.S
Nineteen
percent of Democrats also said they support bombing Agrabah. Thirty-six percent
said they opposed such action.
The poll also
found that supporters of the GOP front-runner Donald Trump were more likely to
support bombing the mythical Arabian nation.
Trump won 45
support among those who advocated for intervention in Agrabah, whereas he won
just 22 percent support from those who opposed it, according to the Hill.
The poll
results come amid a national debate over U.S. policy toward the civil wars in
Syria and Iraq. While President Barack Obama is continuing airstrikes
against the militant Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, several GOP
candidates have called for a more aggressive strategy. Republican Sen. Ted
Cruz, who has recently surged in the polls, said during Tuesday night’s CNN
Republican debate that he would make the sand “glow” with a bombing campaign.
In the same
Public Policy Polling survey, 54 percent of those surveyed said they would
support banning Muslims from entering the U.S., while a quarter of those polled
said they would oppose it. Twenty-eight percent said they would support
shutting down U.S. mosques, whereas 47 percent said they would oppose that.
It still
remains unclear if those polled would be opposed to flying magic carpet rides
and Genies in a bottle.
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