libertarian_knight said:
1. statistically invalid. you're more than an order of magnitude between ranges.
2. rationalization, but not rational. Negligence and Incompitance on the part of one shooter, does not but blame on the other shooter by default. "collateral damage" is "acceptable" (I don't agree) under law, Stupidity is not.
Lastly, Judgement is not afforded to you.
1. I guess these scholar's reports and studies are also "statistically invalid?" Don't stop here. Continue on and study what you obviously know so little of. There is such a wide margin between numbers because it is a difficult thing to narrow. All that can be done is to statistically use the Muslim countries (63), determine how much of that 90percent of the world's current conflicts involve Muslim countries and study the social structures within. How embarassing for you.....
Arnaud de Borchgrave - Senior Adviser and Director
Center for Strategic and International Studies...."
One percent of 1.2 billion is 12 million Muslim fanatics who believe America is the Great Satan, fount of all evil, to be attacked and demolished. Moderate Islam has yet to find a voice that will roll back the extremists, a sort of Islamic Martin Luther [the original, not the one who misappropriated his name] or a Mohandas Gandhi."
http://www.grecoreport.com/radical_islam_rising.htm
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is an international business strategist who has been a consultant to governments, international agencies, and boards of some of the world's largest corporations. Among his nine books are....
"Among the close to one million Dutch Muslims, about 95 percent are moderates. This implies that there are up to 50,000 potential radicals." That means
5 percent in the Netherlands are Radical.
http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief004-14.htm
Though I agree with many of his views, I do not subscribe to his naive views on what a moderate Muslim is. However, Dr. Daniel Pipes is a leading nationally published Commentary and Analysis on Militant Islam and a renowned Middle East expert. He is the author of 12 books...."Militant Islam derives from Islam but is a misanthropic, misogynist, triumphalist, millenarian, anti-modern, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, terroristic, jihadistic, and suicidal version of it.
Fortunately, it appeals to only about 10 percent to 15 percent of Muslims, meaning that a substantial majority would prefer a more moderate version."
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/010540.html
Jonathan Schanzer is a Soref fellow at The Washington Institute, specializing in radical Islamic movements. Mr. Schanzer holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from Emory University and a master's degree in Middle East studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote his master's thesis on the modern history of militant Islam. More recently he studied at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo......"Consider bin Laden's own words. "We have seen in the last decade the decline of the American government and the weakness of the American soldier. He is ready to wage cold wars but unprepared to fight hot wars...We are ready for all occasions, we rely on God."
Adherents of militant Islam account for some 15-20 percent of the Muslim world."
http://www.meforum.org/article/168
2. What collateral damage? What is plainly clear is your lack of knowledge into this subject. Terrorists do not "hang out" with moderate Muslims. They hide within their own Radical element. They surround themselves with people who welcome their "martyrdom." What occurred here was hardly "collateral damage."
Lastly, until God comes down and fixes his screwed up world, judgement is afforded to who ever has the power to act. Be thankful, America has that power and our enemies do not.