RE: Is the ''Only a minority of Muslims are radical'' true?
June 13, 2015 at 9:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2015 at 9:03 am by TheMessiah.)
(June 13, 2015 at 8:56 am)abaris Wrote:(June 13, 2015 at 8:50 am)TheMessiah Wrote: I did not say most Muslims sympathasize with terrorism; they don't, my claim was that many Muslims, especially in Britain believe in blasphemy and are willing to use violence --- that doesn't mean they're all Bin Laden supporters, but they are considerably more radical than the non-Muslim population.
Based on what, since to point to the study of Kamaldeep Bhui and others again: 2.4% of people showed some sympathy for violent protest and terrorist acts.
To repeat: Violent protests and terrorist acts. 2,4 percent. The very study you helped me find by posting your article links. Either you have no reading comprehension or you're simply unwilling to read what doesn't confirm your bias.
Yeah, it's clear that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Learn to read, and gain up on some context.
Many Muslims in the UK are poor; there isn't a wide range of rich Muslims. Pakistani Muslims who make up the bulk of UK Muslims have many working class among them. Out of the Muslims who do turn to militancy, only a minority do --- this is to be expected. Out of that minority, a common risk factor, and correlation is wealth. The wealthier Muslims who are in education, are actually the ones who become more militant. That 2.4% constitute a specific age group in addition to a specific socio-economic class, which most Muslims aren't.
Similarly, in 2004 book “Understanding Terror Networks,” psychiatrist Marc Sageman, a former CIA case officer, examined the backgrounds of 172 militants who were part of al Qaeda or a similar group. Just under half were professionals; two-thirds were either middle or upper class and had gone to college; indeed, several had doctorates.
In a 2006 study, Swati Pandey and this author examined the educational background of 79 terrorists responsible for five of the worst anti-Western terrorist attacks of the modern era — the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, the 9/11 attacks, the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002, and the London bombings on July 7, 2005.
