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Originally Posted by djchameleon
The sheer number of people that are Muslim is what makes it seem like there are huge armies of extremists. There likely may be with a number that big but the percent of Muslims that are extremists are small.
A small percentage of 1.6 Billion is still a **** load of people.
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To try and add perspective again. The O2 arena in London has a capacity of 20,000. That's a lot of people. Let's say there's 1 million people who are willing to commit acts of terror in the name of Islam. You'd have to fill the O2 arena 50 times to accomodate a million people.
Based on the number of terrorist acts currently being committed I'd say that 1 million is a pretty generous assumption.
1 million would represent 0.0625% of the total Muslim population.
Again, people need to put away their broad brushes.