Have a read through this BBC News article. I’ll quote…
A Populus poll for The Times newspaper and ITV news suggests 13% of UK Muslims believe the 7/7 bombers should be regarded as martyrs, with the other 87% disagreeing.
I saw worrying not suprising because I’ve seen the figures for an international survey which asked basically the same question. While I hadn’t seen the British figures I could guess from the figures I did see that we would be about that level. But anyway.
13% of Muslims in the UK support what happened on 7/7. That’s in the UK. I’ve seen the worldwide figures and I think it goes without saying that they are a lot higher elsewhere, obviously in the middle east.
Given there are about a billion Muslims, and it averages out to be about 25%, that means 250,000,000, or 4 times the population of the UK are in support of such actions taken on 7/7.
Furthermore, we have 1.5 million Muslims in the UK. That means over 202,000 Muslims in the UK alone support the actions of 7/7. This is not a small minority. This isn’t a bunch of extremists we can dismiss. This is 200,000 people in the UK alone. This should scare the crap out of all of us.
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