[lqclamar]

Apples and oranges again. 20,000 of approx. 18 million is a tiny fraction of the overall troop strength.P> Only on your part. Your childish attempt at statistical manipulation entails counting (and thus inflating) purported raw numbers of muslim french colonials while dismissing SS jihadis as a tiny percentage of Nazi strength.

The only fair comparisons would be to present either both as raw numbers or both as a percentage. When compared in the latter sense, a couple thousand muslim africans on the war's periphery is a virtually negligible part of the 100-something million or so participants in the allied side of the war effort. IOW, those 20,000 jihadi SS troops constitute a greater percentage of Hitler's forces than the colonial muslims did of the Allied forces.

[zimdog]

Your childish attempt at statistical manipulation entails counting (and thus inflating) purported raw numbers of muslim french colonials while dismissing SS jihadis as a tiny percentage of Nazi strength.

I've done nothing of the sort.

The only fair comparisons would be to present either both as raw numbers or both as a percentage.

Fair enough. You have repeated the 20,000 number on the Nazi side. Echenberg gives 48,759 recruits from French Soudan alone.

You take the current CIA Factbook statistics to be sufficient for approximating the religious demography the WW2 area, so 48,759 x 90% = 43,883.

IOW, those 20,000 jihadi SS troops constitute a greater percentage of Hitler's forces than the colonial muslims did of the Allied forces.

Comparing the relative strength of 20,000 troops among 18 million Wermacht soldiers with considerably more among the "100-something million or so participants in the allied side of the war effort" is apples and oranges to say the least.