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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 1617764" data-attributes="member: 43825"><a href="http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/terrorism-security/2015/0113/How-many-Muslim-extremists-are-there-Just-the-facts-please" target="_blank">http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/terrorism-security/2015/0113/How-many-Muslim-extremists-are-there-Just-the-facts-please</a>ACT! for America&#039;s president and founderBrigitte Gabriel is a media favorite of conservatives concerned about terrorism. And in the wake of the attacks on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a video of Ms. Gabriel&#039;s comments&nbsp; about &quot;Muslims dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization&quot; at a Heritage Foundation forum last June has been revived by bloggers and passed around social media. &quot;The radicals are estimated to be between 15 to 25 percent, according to all intelligence services around the world,&quot; she said, in part, when asked by an American University head-scarf wearing law student about waging an ideological war with Muslims.&nbsp; &quot;You&#039;re looking at 180 million to 300 million people dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization...&quot; Gabriel said. Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz.Is this figure accurate? Not according to Angel Rabasa, who is a senior political scientist at the RAND corporation. While conducting research for his latest book, &quot;Euro Jihad,&quot; he found that Western European intelligence agencies estimate that less than one percent of the Muslim population living within their borders are at risk for becoming radicals.Working off of these intelligence estimates, if you were to take one percent of the Muslim populations of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, by the most liberal of estimates, less than 125,000 Muslims living in these combined countries would be prone to radicalization. Add that to the possible radical population across the rest of Europe and the sum is approximately 325,000 Muslims are at risk of becoming radical. The key qualifier is &quot;at risk of becoming radical.&quot;&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean that they will pick up a gun or start plotting an attack.&quot;Radicalization and violent extremism are two different things,&quot; Mr. Rabasa says. &quot;Violent extremist behavior only comes about if a radicalized individual falls in with a circle of people who are open to using violence.&quot; According to Rabasa, a &quot;radical&quot; Muslim could also be an individual who belongs to an Islamist organization that is advocating for a Sharia legal system, but does not embrace violence to bring this to fruition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 1617764, member: 43825"] [URL]http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/terrorism-security/2015/0113/How-many-Muslim-extremists-are-there-Just-the-facts-please[/URL] ACT! for America's president and founderBrigitte Gabriel is a media favorite of conservatives concerned about terrorism. And in the wake of the attacks on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a video of Ms. Gabriel's comments about "Muslims dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization" at a Heritage Foundation forum last June has been revived by bloggers and passed around social media. "The radicals are estimated to be between 15 to 25 percent, according to all intelligence services around the world," she said, in part, when asked by an American University head-scarf wearing law student about waging an ideological war with Muslims. "You're looking at 180 million to 300 million people dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization..." Gabriel said. Sunni and Shiite Islam: Do you know the difference? Take our quiz. Is this figure accurate? Not according to Angel Rabasa, who is a senior political scientist at the RAND corporation. While conducting research for his latest book, "Euro Jihad," he found that Western European intelligence agencies estimate that less than one percent of the Muslim population living within their borders are at risk for becoming radicals. Working off of these intelligence estimates, if you were to take one percent of the Muslim populations of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, by the most liberal of estimates, less than 125,000 Muslims living in these combined countries would be prone to radicalization. Add that to the possible radical population across the rest of Europe and the sum is approximately 325,000 Muslims are at risk of becoming radical. The key qualifier is "at risk of becoming radical." That doesn't mean that they will pick up a gun or start plotting an attack. "Radicalization and violent extremism are two different things," Mr. Rabasa says. "Violent extremist behavior only comes about if a radicalized individual falls in with a circle of people who are open to using violence." According to Rabasa, a "radical" Muslim could also be an individual who belongs to an Islamist organization that is advocating for a Sharia legal system, but does not embrace violence to bring this to fruition. [/QUOTE]

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