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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Care to provide your definition of the "small minority"? Out of 1.6B, how many Muslims sharing, supporting and justifying the extreme views would constitute "only a small minority" in your opinion and, more importantly, what is the threshold at which this number becomes significant and dangerous?
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I'm not the one that claimed to have statistics.
I made a generalization, and you claimed to have statistics that you think discredit my original position.
I admit that I may be wrong as I am basing my opinion on a general belief that most people aren't inherently violent, and the ammount of cases that get reported are not a representative sample of the feelings/actions of 1.6 Billion people. I would be 100% willing to change my stance should I be presented with reliable stastics that show otherwise.
You have claimed to have those statisics.
Please provide them and I'll gladly take a look and let you know if I still consider that a "Small minority".
As for when a small minority becomes significant and dangerous, that's kind of beside the point. No one is debating that muslim extremists are dangerous, what is up for debate is wheter or not they constitue a large enough group to make generalizations about Muslims as a whole. So yeah, if, for example, that number was 50 Million. That is pretty worrying and significant, but based on a population of 1.6 Billion, that's still a pretty small minority.