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Islamophobia is a Myth: Part 2

Is someone who is smarter than 80% of the population extremely smart?   What does it mean to say something is extreme?  When I hear extreme, I imagine a probability distribution.  Extreme would be at least three deviations from the norm.  An extremely smart person would be, say, 1-in-100, or 1-in-1,000.  An extremely smart person would not be 1-in-5.  While that's better than average, it's not extreme. Why then do we say that only Muslim extremists support terrorism?   The data shows that 20% of Muslims support terrorist attacks.  The Pew Research Center tries spinning the data: Support for terrorism remains low among the Muslim publics surveyed. Many fewer Muslims in 2010 than in the middle of the past decade say that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians are justified to defend Islam from its enemies...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).