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Originally Posted by Resurrection

\I found the article the images belonged too and posted the missing data in my original post, and here it is here:





http://www.chicagonow.com/an-agnosti...affleck-angry/

Thanks, that is definitely more helpful and at least they provide the tools to understand the data better. The way it is presented is still pretty misleading though.

Just using Bosnia as an example again as it is a place that I care about....

The original graph posted states that 15% of the people who support Sharia Law support the death penalty for leaving Islam. Fifteen percent sounds alarming, but then when you do the math:

Bosnia population = ~3.8 million
Muslim population in Bosnia is roughly 40% of 3.8 million (= 1.52 million).
Only 15% of Muslims polled support Sharia Law (= 228,000)
Only 15% of the 228,000 support the death penalty for leaving Islam (=34,200)

That ~34,200 is less than 1% of the total population of the country. That number is certainly less alarming. Even if you simplify it as simply the percentage of Muslims in Bosnia, it would be 2.25% of that specific demographic.

As someone else mentioned, you can find 1-2.25% of any population to believe is some pretty radical stuff.