I have a whole category on this topic – I’m glad to see media finally picking up on the concept that although percentages involved may be small, there is a large enough group of radical Islamists in the West to be genuinely concerned about:
One in 11 British Muslims backs suicide bombers, says Brown aide
What’s that mean in real numbers?
Mr Rafiq, an adviser to the Government’s preventing extremism taskforce, said: “A percentage of people actually agree and support proactively the people that are deciding to blow themselves up.
“It varies, it can be 7 per cent, 5 per cent, 9 per cent.”
With 1.6million Muslims living in the UK, nine per cent is the equivalent of 144,000 people supporting terrorism.
Just in the UK. Again, all of those people are not going to become suicide bombers themselves. Most of them will be satisfied with promoting the concept, and some will put their money where their mouth is. But if just 9% of that 144,000 decided to stake their lives on their beliefs, that’s 12,960. If a mere 1% did, that’s still 1,400. Just in the UK. That’s a lot of suicide bombers. To minimize it further – if a thousandth of a percent acted, that’s 14.
Consider the damage 4 terrorists did in London on 7/7 and 19 did in the U.S. on 9/11.
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Those are alarming numbers. And to think, Britain will probably remain idle.
You’re right. We’re not doing much better in that regard here in the US, although I’ve found fewer statistics on the subject.