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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
OK, you consider 50M or 3% of the Muslim population to be a pretty small minority. What about 100M or 6.25%? What about 250M or 16%? At which point does it stop being a "pretty small minority" for you? Just want to understand your personal tolerance threshold towards a statistically significant number.
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Just to be clear, I was using 50 Million as an example to illustrate a point.
That being that the number of potentially violent extremists can be quite high while still constituting a pretty small minority of the Muslim population as a whole.
As for what is a stistically significant number to justify painting 1.6 Billion people with the same brush? I'm not 100% sure, but it's defiintely higher than 3-6%
Like I said, I'm not debating that any number of extremists are dangerous, and in absolute terms those numbers, and the danger they pose could be quite high, but in relation to the reaminder of those 1.6 billion people, it's not likely high enough for me to start making generalizations about that group as a whole other than "Yup, most of them are just fine by me"
Now, if you'll kindly provide those statistics you have claimed to have, let's see them. I always like learning new things.