Davo said:
I wouldnt say "millions" thats a pretty big number....I'd say more like...thousands....There's of course the couple of wackos(Bin Laden, Khomeini etc etc) and then there are the followers...max I'd say....200,300 thousand...excluding the Talibans...
Then you'd be wrong....
1 out of every 5 people in the world are Muslim.
That means there are 1.2 Billion Muslims Worldwide.
Muslims are the majority in 63 countries.
Over 80% of worlds current conflicts involve Muslim countries.
Radical Muslims account for between 1% to 20% of Islam, which equals between 12 and 150 million people.
Not all Radical Muslims carry guns or strap bombs to themselves….the majority are the "sea within which the Radical Islamist terrorists swim." If done the study...you will find a plethora of international scholars, professors, and experts of religion, economics, and the Middle East who have studies that hover in the numbers between 1% and 20%. The reason this number shows such a large room for error is that it is almost impossible to exactly delineate who our enemies are. Percentages can be taken from each of the 63 countries where Muslims are the majority.
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
For more on the reality of this growing threat:
David F. Forte is a Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio and the author of Islamic Studies: Classical and Contemporary Applications..........
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/ope.../01/islam.html
Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "Yet the commitment of the enemy is hardly matched by the American commitment to counter him. True, the U.S. is engaged in Iraq. Yes, an unprecedented effort has gone into public diplomacy. But how does the West combat Islamic extremism? U.S. officials confronted with the question hem and haw uncomfortably. They mention the "freedom agenda" and the spread of democracy; and while democracy is indeed the long-term solution to the problem of radical Islam and the appeal of Islamic extremist groups, the problem faces us now. A short-term solution is needed to partner with the long term one. The U.S. remains oddly reluctant to fight Islamic extremism at one of its most important sources: Saudi Arabia."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article....cle_id=21 056
