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bounty44 -> RE: Mass Shooting in Florida (6/15/2016 1:47:47 PM)
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meanwhile:
"Pew Data, Islamic Expert: More Than 60 Million Muslims Hold Favorable Views of ISIS"
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In the wake of yet another bloody massacre perpetrated by Islamist terrorists, media and political elites are, like clockwork, tripping over one another to remind us that Islam as a whole should not be held responsible for the carnage. And of course that's true. Even raging Islamophobes understand that not every Muslim in the world is murderous or malicious, and most reasonable people happily acknowledge that the vast majority of the planet's 1.6 billion Muslims are peaceable people who adhere to relatively moderate interpretations of Islam. Virtually nobody disputes any of that.
But the fiction that Islamist violence has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam is both intellectually insulting and dangerously naive. We've written previously about the alarming number of Muslims worldwide who at best hold profoundly illiberal views on issues such as free speech, human rights, and the imposition of Sharia Law. A recent survey of British Muslims only underscores why serious concerns about Islam in the West shouldn't merely be waved away as ignorance and xenophobia. Are those who decry the "ignorance" aware of data like this? Do they have any idea what Sharia Law entails? Have they read this report, curated and authored by a human rights advocate who renounces many of his own landmark findings on "Islamophobia" from less than a decade ago?...
ISIS, he says, naturally gravitates toward the most primitive and brutal Koranic analyses. He also rebuffs the dangerous feel-goodery that Islamist terrorism is somehow entirely divorced from Islam, the religion from which radicals draw their inspiration and justification. "Fair-minded commentators, therefore, do not dismiss such murderous actions as nihilistic crimes against humanity. Rather, they understand the murderers are motivated not by a nihilistic urge for violence, but by cold and calculated reasoning that runs deep in the Islamic source texts and traditions. These source texts and traditions provide the fertile breeding ground for people like Mateen," he writes And then there's this:
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Although supporters of extremist Islamist groups make up a relatively small percentage of the total Muslim population, this leads to underestimating the scope of the Islamist problem. In absolute numbers, more than 60 million Muslims the world over, a population roughly equal to that of the United Kingdom, holds a favorable view towards ISIS. Millions more are unsure about whether they hold a favorable or unfavorable view towards ISIS, according to Pew research.
Even if you question Pew's methodology and insist that their numbers overstate the problem by half, that still leaves tens of millions of Muslims who hold favorable attitudes toward ISIS, the embodiment of Islam's most virulent and ruthless strain. It's healthy and accurate to affirm that mainstream Islam does not condone acts of terrorism against innocents. It's also essential to view the real threat, and understand its disturbing scope, with clear eyes. I'll leave you with this Daily Signal project tallying the dozens of successful and thwarted (publicly-known) Islamist terror plots on US soil since 9/11:
The massacre in Orlando is the 86th instance of Islamist terror in the U.S. since 9/11 https://t.co/RWFM0lXKZm pic.twitter.com/HyQF2urZEo
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) June 14, 2016
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/06/15/islamic-expert-more-60-million-muslims-hold-favorable-views-of-isis-n2178289
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