Politesub53 -> RE: Another outrage from the R of P (10/29/2013 6:32:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: truckinslave From the article we both cited: A Daily Telegraph survey[3] showed that 6% of British Muslims (about 100,000 individuals) fully supported the July 2005 bombings in the London Underground, and one Muslim in four expressed some sympathy with the bombers. They rounded it down to 1 in 4. I have not looked at the exact language of the poll in years; but, yeah wiki's characterization of "and 1 in 4 expressed some sympathy" means "support" in my mind. And those are the ones who admitted it in such an atmosphere of paranoia and fear as shown by the fourth who thought the bombings a government action and the perpetrators wrongly convicted patsies. If the ones expressing sympathy and the paranoids are different people (and they should be, given the fear that accompanies paranoia), then fully half of the British Muslims polled admit to what I consider insanity. Which would mean, imo, that half of them are honest. Am I reading you right, are you suggesting rounding something down from 6% = 1 in 4. As for your notion that sympathy equals support ( I allow for the fact you said "In my mind" Do you not grasp that means there were two seperate question in the poll, for there surely had to be to get two seperate answers. Question A) Do you support the terrorist bombings. Question B) Do you have some sympathy for the terrorists cause. Hardly the same question is it, hence two different answers.
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