Sunday, January 11, 2015

The Muslim Threat by the Numbers - The Number of Muslims Who Support Violent Jihad


Five thousand Muslims in France are suspected terrorists. That is a LOT of terrorists even though it only represents 1 tenth of 1 percent of the 5 Million Muslims in France. Still, that is a lot but the truth could be much worse, not only in France but also around the world and right here in the USA.
If 99.9 % of all Muslims worldwide opposed violent Jihad that would mean that 1.4 Million support it. As worrisome as many may find that number the Muslim support for Jihad is much, much higher. Let's ta a look at the numbers:
Accordiing to the lates Pew Research polls, 72% of Muslims oppose violent Jihad worldwide. In the U.S. 81% of Muslims oppose it. Though I did not readily find the numbers for France, I believe that it is safe to say that the rate of opposing Jihad in France is somewhere between the two figures and I feel confident that a figure of 77% is pretty close. Turning those figures around and applying them to the estimated Muslim populations tells us that:
Worldwide, that 28% of the estimated 1.6 billion Muslims either support violent Jihad or have no objections to it - a whopping 448 million people. In France, that figure comes in at 1,350,000. And in the good USA - where we are the number one ultimate target of radical Muslims - 23% of our estimated 3.2 million Muslims comes to 608,000 Muslims who either support violent Jihad or don't object to it.
Before anyone totally freaks out at those numbers, keep in mind that support and lack of objection does not mean actual active participation. Those numbers are surely much, much less - though one could rightly be worried that the numbers could rise quite a bit if the conflict escalates. Another thing to keep in mind is that those numbers do not include the number of people who support Jihad but do not identify themselves as Muslims. One need look no further than France to see how significant that group might be: A recent poll found that 16% of the entire population of France supported ISIS.
While it is true that a large majority of Muslims are peace loving people who do not support Jihad - those numbers above are sobering. Or should be.
Troubling numbers indeed!

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