AllieBaba
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I've never said the majority of Muslims are intolerant. I've said it is an intolerant religion. I base that on the Koran.You have almost (accidently, I am sure) hit on why your analysis is wrong if it is meant to suggest that Islam is a violent/intolerant religion.
Three steps.
First, if you wanted to know if Muslims commit more terrorist/violent/intolerant (use whatever qualifier you wish) acts, it is irrelevant how many millions of individuals one could classify by this metric. It is only the percentage that would matter. For example, if 1% of the population of China advocated terrorist activities, that would be 13 million people, which certainly sounds bad, but it is still the overwhelming minority of Chinese. Raw numbers are irrelevant to ascribing characteristics to whole groups of people.
Second, merely because some percentage of Muslim people advocate A doesn't mean that it is because they are Muslim. One would have to look at all the other attributes that they share and perform a regression analysis (assuming you could even identify the other variables) to determine whether Islam was truly a motivating factor for their actions, or merely an accompanying factor to that portion of the population.
Third, even if some percentage do advocate activity A due to their interpretation of their religion, this group may still represent a small proportion of the overall group and their interpretation could be in the very small minority. In such an event, it would be silly to accept their interpretation as defining the religion as opposed to the majority interpretation.
And yes, I know that the extremists are a minority. But even as a minority their numbers are staggering.
Hear that Larkinn? I'm not responding to your post specificially because it's idiotic drivel and you're attempting to make connections which don't exist. Remember what I said about the voices....