On May 23, 1:02 pm, (Jason) wrote:
In article <1179946310.108508.165...@b40g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Santolina chamaecyparissus <santol...@juno.com> wrote:
On May 22, 9:16 pm,
(Jason) wrote:
In article <f309df$pn...@online.de>,
wrote:
Jason:
One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their
religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though
most Muslim
Americans overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic
extremism and al-Qaida, a poll says.
Well, that was to be expected, wasn't it? Once a given group of
people gets
large enough, you're bound to find some idiots in it.
One in four is a much higher figure than I expected it would be. According
to the 2005 Time Almanac, there are 5.5 million Muslims in America. At
least one million would be considered to be part of the "younger group".
Therefore 25 percent of 1,000,000 is 250,000. If my figures are correct,
that means we have about 250,000 Muslims in America that support suicide
bombings in some situations.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/313.php?nid...
"Forty-six percent [of Americans] say that ... attacks [against
civilians] are never justified, while 27 percent say they are rarely
justified. Twenty-four percent see them as sometimes (19%) or often
(5%) justified."
What concerns me and lots of other people are how many of the 24 percent
figure that you mentioned are members of "sleeper cells".
There may or may not be "sleeper cells" in the U.S. regardless of the
result of this poll.
You aren't at all concerned that the American population in general
seems to be twice as likely to disregard human life as the American
Muslim population?
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