Thursday, March 23, 2017

PEW research on radicalism in Islam someone's post on another blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TAAw3oQvg Ben Shapiro: The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority (YouTube)

According to Pew Research of 2011, 1.6 Billion Muslims in 49 countries where they are the majority. This, combined with other polls found:

Indonesia – world’s most populace Muslim country at 205 million. 50% support Sharia law not only in Indonesia but also the world. (103 million); 70% blame USA, Israel or someone else for 9/11

Egypt – 80 million Muslims. 65% want strict Sharia law worldwide; 70% (52 million) had positive feelings about Bin Laden

Pakistan – 179 million Muslims. 76% want strict Sharia law worldwide (135 million)

Bangladesh – 149 million Muslims. 82% want strict sharia law to be the law of the country (122 million); 66% said honor killings of women can sometimes be justified; 25% believe suicide bombings are sometimes justified

Nigeria – 76 million Muslims. 71% want strict sharia law to the law of the country (54 million)

Iran – 75 million Muslims. 83% want strict sharia law to be the law of the country (62 million)

Turkey – 75 million Muslims. 32% said honor killings of women can sometimes be justified. (24 million)

Morocco – 32 million Muslims 75% want strict sharia law to be the law of the country (25 million)

Iraq – 31 million Muslims. 78% said honor killings of women can sometimes be justified (24 million)

Afghanistan – 24 million Muslims. 99% want strict sharia law to be the law of the country (24 million); 76% said honor killings of women can sometimes be justified

Jordan – 6 million Muslims. 60% support Hamas (4 million)

Palestine – 4 million Muslims. 89% want strict sharia law to be the law of the country (4 million) 78% had positive feelings about Bin Laden; 89% support terror attacks against Israel

France – 5 million Muslims. 35% believe suicide bombings are sometimes justified (2 million)

Great Britain – 3 million Muslims. 78% want cartoonists of Mohammed prosecuted (2 million)

USA – 3 million Muslims 23% said violence against civilians can be justified (0.5 million); 19% favorable toward Al-Qaeda or “didn’t know”

Total in countries surveyed: 942 million
Radicalized Muslims: 680 million
That is a majority – not a minority