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

[TheMessiah]

The only nations with majorities listed are relatively small in population compared to places like Indonesia or Pakistan.

So it looks like even this source you've cited would answer your title question in the negative.  I haven't run the numbers, but I'd be surprised if majorities of Palestinians or Jordanians would outweigh an Indian or Indonesian maj0rity. India has 180 million Muslims, Indonesia 203 million. Palestine, Egypt, and jordan put together don't reach 90 million, and those are the only three majority "extremist" populations listed above. And you'll notice that two of the three majority "extremist" nationalities don't approve directly of attacks on Americans, but rather, of groups which commit attacks on Americans, which is a different thing, as they may have another reason for approving of said groups.

The argument put forward is to look at Muslim majority nations; which have Islamic beliefs reinforced through law and then poll them. Likewise, Indonesia has roughly 250 million people. The Muslim population is roughly 196 million.

40% of Indonesian Muslims believe in violence in defense of Islam. That is roughly 80 million, yet again, more people than there are in some European countries. Even the 30% of Indonesians who support the death penalty for apostasy, roughly equates to 58 million Muslims (of Indonesia).

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailweek...060728.@03

Egypt has a population of 82.06 million. 80 million are Muslims. 84% of 82 million is roughly 67 million; there are 67 million people in Egypt who see it reasonable that apostates of Islam deserve to die because of it.

Either way, I think you are missing the point I was making --- we are constantly smacked with ''A fringe minority of Muslims are radical'' yet what appears to be the case is that entire Muslim majorities in Muslim countries all hold extremely radical beliefs.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Nigeria, the list goes on.