Member Profile Total number of comments: 2 (since 2015-02-17 17:00:28) Left Coast Bernard Showing comments 2 - 1Page: 1 Today's Top 7 Myths about Daesh/ ISIL Left Coast Bernard 02/17/2015 at 9:51 am with 1 replies British PM David Cameron ominously warned that 400 British Muslim youth had gone off to fight in Syria. But there are like 3.7 million Muslims in the UK now! So .000027 percent of the community volunteered. (400/3,700,000)X100 = 0.01%, about 1 in 10,000. Not 0.000027%, which is about 3 in 10,000,000. When Extremism Learns to Blow things Up Bernard Leikind 07/24/2011 at 9:11 am Prof. Cole, "...the few hundred thousand Muslims in Spain (pop. 45 mn.) , or the 4 million in Turkey (5 percent of the population)..." I'm sure that you meant "the 4 million in Germany." Thanks for this and the previous thoughtful post of this subject. No need to post this comment if you correct the typo. Showing comments 2 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
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British PM David Cameron ominously warned that 400 British Muslim youth had gone off to fight in Syria. But there are like 3.7 million Muslims in the UK now! So .000027 percent of the community volunteered.
(400/3,700,000)X100 = 0.01%, about 1 in 10,000.
Not 0.000027%, which is about 3 in 10,000,000.
Prof. Cole,
"...the few hundred thousand Muslims in Spain (pop. 45 mn.) , or the 4 million in Turkey (5 percent of the population)..."
I'm sure that you meant "the 4 million in Germany."
Thanks for this and the previous thoughtful post of this subject. No need to post this comment if you correct the typo.