Some practical statistics

[chickenfeet]

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.

Comments

[tanuja.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's the difference between consultants and accountants {snerk}.

To my utter shame, I have no response to this.... :oops: :)

The office accountant sounds like several people I have worked with. Fortunately, Treasury is much more, er, reasonable.