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Small minorities of a few percent of the population, without clear ideology and leadership, can’t be a serious threat to any civilization;
The article goes on to exclaim: “All this because of 3% of the population”
Partisanship can blind those predisposed to ideology to the point they completely miss the obvious, especially when it comes to numbers & percentages.
Percentages can be tricky things when applied to very large numbers. It’s easy to disregard them because they seem so tiny, so insignificant.
3% of the US population is gay, but that’s 9,300,000 people. Given all the social uproar over gay marriage and even the recent hilarious magazine cover of Mr. Caitlyn Jenner and all the debate over that, this little 3% of the population wields a mighty big hammer over US society. Remember the whole 99% occupy wall street fiasco and their objections to only 1%. How much wealth does 1% of the population hold? Think 1% is no big deal?
In my field of filtration, a Hepa filter captures 99.97% of all particles .3 micron and above. Sounds fantastic doesn’t it! Hold your horses…..
There are as many as 100 million particles per cubic meter of air almost all of which are submicron. (when you see dust shimmering in the sunlight coming through a window, know that for every particle you see, there are hundreds of thousands right next to it that you can’t see) Filtering out 99.97% means about 30,000 particles get past….
A typical filter may see 28 cubic meters per minute. That’s 840,000 particles passing through per minute, 50,400,000 per hour, 1,209,600,000 a day…
If there’s nothing in the air but normal dirt and dust… not that big a deal to you and me. We breathe this in all day long. (FYI: your furnace filter captures about .01% of dirt in the air at best)
It’s not a big deal ......unless you’re in an operating room or making computer chips…. Then it makes a big difference. That tiny % that slips by can be fatal. Biological research labs, US embassies, etc…. laugh at 99.97% filters. They are looking at 99.99997%
So the comparison the writer and other Islamic fascist apologist fail to make is that a very small percentage can have a huge impact if it only takes a few to be disastrous. The articles says France has 2 million Muslims. From world events, it’s pretty clear that not all Muslims are terrorist, but almost all terrorist are Muslims. So what if 99.97% of that 2 million are NOT prone to violence. Guess what; that leaves 600 who are.
Look at what a couple French terrorist did to a newspaper and free speech. Look what 19 terrorist did with airplanes. Look what a few did in London. Look what 1 did in Ft. Hood Texas.
The article also completely ignores the future. Demographics is about tomorrow, not today. What % of school age children in Europe are Muslim today compared to what it was last year, the year before. What will the % be next year or the year after? Pretty soon, that tiny % is a larger % and all of a sudden, you’re looking at elections changing course because of the demographics of the electorate.
and you're right old indian, we heard this about the Mexican immigrants in the US, but here's a question: Do you honestly think Mexican immigration has not impacted the US in anyway? (and Mexicans are not strapping bombs to children and sending them into Pizza parlors...)
Short answer: the writer of this article is a fool.
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