Is the ''Only a minority of Muslims are radical'' true?

[TheMessiah]

Firstly, if you really dislike biased sources like rationalwiki I think you should abstain from using websites like therligionofpeace that are clearly ran by anti-Islam militants who would never dream of posting favourable statistics about Muslims.

Secondly, when it comes to "attacks on Americans" - Not only am I not surprised, but if I lived in the middle east I would 100% approve those attacks without second thought. Why are Americans a special snowflake? Do you expect to pretend to be the world's police and not receive any hatred in return? Grow up. There are people in the west who support nuking the middle east.

Thirdly - Where do British, French and Dutch Muslims come from? This is an honest question. I am Portuguese, and one of the curious things about the Muslim population is that, excluding the latest refugee immigrants, the first and second generations were composed by highly educated, intelligent and secular Muslims from the colonies - Many had friends in the government, were peaceful, and you have never seen a terrorist attack done by Muslims, despite the fact there are probably 30000-50000 of them (in 10 million people). I think this has to do with where immigrants come from. An immigrant from Pakistan or Saudi is probably more likely to be a bigot than someone from Angola, Singapore, etc.

Can you explain to me how it is bias?

The polls cited are from global and national surveys; they are done on a large scale, many Muslims do have good views, for example from that list, many disapprove of terrorism - but significant populations believe that people should die for leaving the religion.

They aren't fringe organisations - that's why Sam Harris and others have referred to them. PEW is a respected organisation.

Here is a PEW Global statistic.

Pew Research (2010): 82% of Egyptian Muslims favor stoning adulterers
70% of Jordanian Muslims favor stoning adulterers
42% of Indonesian Muslims favor stoning adulterers
82% of Pakistanis favor stoning adulterers
56% of Nigerian Muslims favor stoning adulterers
http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-...hezbollah/

More PEW

Pew Research (2010): 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
86% of Jordanian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
30% of Indonesian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
76% of Pakistanis support death the penalty for leaving Islam
51% of Nigerian Muslims support the death penalty for leaving Islam
http://pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-...hezbollah/