Andrewmc wrote:
I am not sure
When you see them shoot them in the head?
In terms of prevention. I think i saw somewhere a stat that estimated the lunatic fringe as 1% of 1% of the muslim population
I genuinely dont believe that muslims in east london, bradford, burnley or elsewhere are ambivalent or view these attacks as a victory
I also dont believe that its so pervasive that every muslim knows someone ready to strap on semtex
It appears in the last two weeks that people in their communities have informed on them and its still happened
That suggests that whilst there is obviously work to do in the muslim community, in these cases thats not where it has broken down
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Maybe that is an estimate for the population in London or GB specifically, but what I've seen a number of times over the years is the radical portion of Muslims is 5 - 20%. In one of those "Intelligence Squared" debates, while arguing that there were not that many radical Muslims, Reza Azlan says this:
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Reza Aslan, a fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public Diplomacy and a creative writing professor at the University of California, Riverside, says: "So then I suppose the real question here is why do we keep asking pundits and politicians and writers and public intellectuals what Muslims think? Why don't we just simply ask Muslims themselves? This is, after all, not so arduous a task. In fact, the Gallup organization — the most trusted polling organization in the world — has already done the work for us by conducting the largest, most comprehensive poll of the Muslim world ever done. According to that poll, a mere 7 percent of the world's Muslims — not Arabs — 7 percent of the world's Muslims believe that the attacks of 9/11 were justified. ... In fact, the Gallup poll found that in all Muslim countries, the majority of those Muslims who, quote/unquote, support violence or what we can refer to as radical views or tendencies do so for markedly secular — that is, political — reasons."
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Those numbers of "radical" Muslims are the concern, but it's hard to find what the term specifically entail in the various polls/estimates.