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chickenfeet) wrote2005-07-13 07:13 am
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Some practical statistics
Lord Stevens claims 3000 British based Muslims have been through Al Quaeda training camps.
Let's see:
There are 1.6 million Muslims in Britain, of which half, one assumes, are female and unlikely to attend AQ camps. So, 800,000 males.
At least a quarter of those must be too young to have had terrorist training so let's say 600,000 adult males.
So 1 in 200 adult British Muslim males have left the country for terrorist training?
I have my doubts.
Let's see:
There are 1.6 million Muslims in Britain, of which half, one assumes, are female and unlikely to attend AQ camps. So, 800,000 males.
At least a quarter of those must be too young to have had terrorist training so let's say 600,000 adult males.
So 1 in 200 adult British Muslim males have left the country for terrorist training?
I have my doubts.
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So hats off to people like yourself and Mr Tanuja who make the effort to prove the stats are crap, and also to prove that 82% of statistics are made up on the spot ;)
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Nice, thank you.
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Viz the dreaded KiltGuy: technically a Canadian citizen, has a passport and ID card etc, would be the first to wave his Canadian nationality around if ever drafted into anything unpleasant in the UK, but has visited The Big Maple only three times in the last ten years.
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