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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 10:16 am
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Originally Posted by Bart
Out of the approximately 1.5 billion people in the world who are Muslim, what percentage of them are terrorists who target Americans that support your statistical "facts?"
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Think.
Lets do the math. Lets say 5 million Muslims in the US. 25 have actually caused an attack on US soil.

25 / 5,000,000 = .000005 chance of a particular Muslim in the US of being a terrorist. If you figure of these 25, they are either all dead or in custody, you should not lose any sleep over night because of this.

Any statistician would laugh at that as any sort of predictor of behavior. That third grade math sure comes in handy.
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