[Julhelm]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Thus should we tarnish the remaining 85 to 75% for the crimes of the 15-25%? Yes, there is a problem, but you don't solve that problem by going Donald Trump and blaming 100% of them for the problem, you work with the 85-75% to catch, jail and if needs be, deport the 15-25%.
That's why the old phrase began, because people think in absolutes, powerful people, people with access to good media, and these people work on both sides of the coin, on our side and on theirs. I'm sure somewhere on the Islamic web there might well be a poor sap trying to persuade people that just because 15-25% of the western population think all Muslims are terrorists it doesn't mean that all of the western world hates Islam.
Admittedly, that poor sod is probably more likely to get killed for his troubles, I can thank our society that things haven't got that bad here. Once upon a time they were but we killed a lot of people to fix that. I have a feeling that the same thing will have to happen in the Muslim world before they straighten things out, and our meddling isn't going to help that.

If 25% of all muslims are western-hating radicals thats about 250+ million people we are talking about. Or slightly less than the entire US population.