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

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Before a certain someone says ''right wing source (2nd link), invalid'' I will point out that the article was written by a Muslim, journalist Abul Taher.

Right, as usual you don't dig any deeper than the original article. I'm not surprised actually. But I took the liberty to look up the actual study of this professor Kamaldeep Bhui, they are talking about in the independent article. That's the rather interesting bit about it, since it talks about 2 point fucking 4 percent of the sample group having radical ideas.

Results

2.4% of people showed some sympathy for violent protest and terrorist acts. Sympathy was more likely to be articulated by the under 20s, those in full time education rather than employment, those born in the UK, those speaking English at home, and high earners (>£75,000 a year). People with poor self-reported health were less likely to show sympathies for violent protest and terrorism. Anxiety and depressive symptoms, adverse life events and socio-political attitudes showed no associations.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article...ne.0090718

There goes your majority claim down the toilet.

Secondly, you probably know of the general bias of the dailymail. Also, you probably didn't check up on the background of the only person, who is interviewed by this Taher character: Anthony Glees. Please do.

Both articlkes of course don't mention a percentage of radicals. The above study does. To repeat it, 2,4 percents.

Thirdly, Taher doesn't give a title for the supposedly leaked document. Secret: UK eyes only is a generic classification that doesn't help in any way, shape or form to find the document in question.

And last, they all talk about the UK and about the UK only. There's nothing giving an indication about other countries.