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To: zimdog
The KKK had over 4 million members in its heyday ...

Most reports state that approx. 10% of the worlds Muslims support the islamofascist terrorists on one level or another. (That number is extremely underestimated IMHO). There are about 1 billion Muslims in the world. Based on the conservative estimate of 10% Muslim support for the likes of OBL, that means there are 100 million Islamofascist terrorists and supporters in the world.

That's a lot more terrorist and terrorist supporters than the KKK, IRA, LTTE, FARC, Basque, etc. combined. That's why your attempts to equate the islamofascist threat to the level of the threat of these other groups is disingenuous.

174 posted on 09/04/2006 9:38:55 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Tamar1973
Most reports state that approx. 10% of the worlds Muslims support the islamofascist terrorists on one level or another.

Please cite some of these reports. Numbers can be dangerous and you shouldn't play with statistics unless you are adequately protected by facts.

(That number is extremely underestimated IMHO)

I suspect that your "humble opinion" is further humbled by very little personal experience with Muslims of any stripe.

[Your figure of 100 million Muslims]'s a lot more terrorist and terrorist supporters than the KKK, IRA, LTTE, FARC, Basque, etc. combined.

Let's just take the Klan for now. Acknowledging the fact that well over 10% of America's white men were registered members of the Klan, not just supporters, let's look at what they supported. The Klan was against "race-mixing" in the parlance of the times ("black people's rights" in modern uses). Of the roughly 265 non-black Americans, how many woudl you say would not approve of their daughter dating "one of them"? Those people support the Klan "on one level or another", as you put it. Now how about in the world as a whole? There are approximately 5 billion people in the world who don't claim sub-Saharan African ancestry, and if just 2% of them don't believe that black people are their equals, then there are 100 million people who support the KKK on at least one level. If you know anything about xenophobia and racism in China, Russia, Germany, France, etc, you'll expect that the number is higher.

And yes, I think that a figure of 2.1% is an "extremely underestimated", but that's just MHO.

That's why your attempts to equate the islamofascist threat to the level of the threat of these other groups is disingenuous.

Sadly for you, I'm not attempting to equate levels of terrorist threat. It is clear that Islamist terrorists are our most pressing enemies at this time. To suggest that non-Islamist terrorist groups are not significant as terrorists is stupid, disingenuous, and dangerous.

175 posted on 09/04/2006 10:27:36 PM PDT by zimdog
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