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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Yes, but what's an extremist? The people who carry out terrorists attacks are a tiny minority. But the people who say it's okay to kill apostates or those who insult Allah represent a much larger proportion of Muslims. 27 per cent of British Muslims polled (which represents around 700K people) said they sympathized with the gunmen who killed the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. 11 per cent said the Charlie Hebdo staff deserved to die.
So does the UK have 260,000 Muslim extremists? 700,000?
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Yes, I would classify those people as extremists.
And I'm not arguing that extremism isn't a problem. But the 70%, the 2 million, don't really have much power to enact short term change. All the moderates can do is not be extremists. And have their behaviours change others.