Is it intellectual honesty to Judge 1.5 Billion Muslims based on the actions of .0001 % who are criminals ?

Answer 1

I know where you got your statistic, and why it smells that way.

.0001% equals 1 in 1,000,000. Of 1.3 billion Muslims, that would equal only 1,300. The number of angry and often violent protesters against a Danish CARTOON numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and that's just the protests that were big enough to make the news.

If the moderate an peaceful Muslims are truly concerned about the actions of a few, then I am curious why they spend so much time defending their religion and so little time trying to fix the problem. Anything less is the same thing as providing shelter for the criminals and murderers.

Answer 2

No,

Is it intellectual honesty to say that there are 1.5 Billion Muslims?

How do you know how many are Criminals? Did you interview them all?

If there is only .0001% why don't the other 99.999% just subdue, turn in, or simply ignore the few?

If there are only .0001% that are radical, why do we see millions protesting and burning buildings over a cartoon drawing?

Why are there so many Suni's killing Shia's?

Honestly, I don't judge all Muslims, and I know many are peacefull.

The main weakness in Islam to me is that there is no central leadership to moderate the Radicals. That leaves the individual Imam to much power and latitude to translate as they wish, some will use that power for evil, and they give the rest a bad name.

Us Catholics have a book called the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it is what all Catholics profess to believe. If a Priest goes against it, the central leadership can remove that radical Priest. If Muslims has a similar book, we could all just read it and know for sure what all Muslims Profess to believe, it would make it much easier for moderate Muslims to stand up to the Radicals as well.

Peace, and God Bless!

Answer 3

When I lived in Israel, I used to ask the same question all the time. No, it is not intellectually honest. However, .0001% is a number you pulled out of your ***, so that's not intellectually honest either. That said, even if the number were 25%, it wouldn't change the fact that it's not just to punish an entire people for the actions of a minority among them. They call it "collective punishment" and when applied in war time it constitutes a war crime.

Answer 4

No. But since you've asked the question I can assume that you are not being judgmental towards those Muslims that are good citizens. Thank you. There are nearly 7 million American Muslims and I ask those that blame ALL Muslims for atrocities: Where's the violence?

Answer 5

I think you have whacky stats.

While I would not claim that all Muslims are terrorists or criminals, the number of fundamentalists of this sort of bent are much higher than you think.

For instance, when the Muslim community was polled at random by the BBC in Birmingham this year, 40% of men asked thought it was OK to kill a woman for bringing dishonour on her family (for instance, by choosing her own boyfriend - this was the topic under discussion).

40% is 6 orders of magnitude higher than your figure.

Answer 6

People do it here all the time (not about just Muslims), but will discount every group and their message because of some bitter rant from one of its own members.

Answer 7

Rational judgement for the sake of social justice is not condemned when done so from the righteous

Answer 8

No it is not.
However, when the majority do not speak up to the actions of .001%; their silence is deafening

Answer 9

For all those that want to know the truth about Islam, read the Koran for yourself and find out what that religion is all about. It wont take you long to figure out, its pretty clear.

Answer 10

Go study your history and you will find your .0001% is a little low.