Islamophobia: What We Need is Definition If We Desire Clarity!

By Rich Kozlovich

The dictionary defines a phobia as a suffix meaning an; “extreme or irrational fear or dislike of a specified thing or group.” Of course you immediately recognize the operative word is “irrational”, which according to the dictionary means; not logical or reasonable, unreasonable, illogical, groundless, baseless, unfounded, unjustifiable, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, preposterous, silly, foolish, senseless.

After reading the definitions outlining this term, and since we see this term being used so much by those supporting Muslims, I think we need to follow a natural logical progression of thought and ask ourselves: Is a fear of Islam really irrational, illogical and ludicrous?

This was sent to Pamela Geller and appeared here at her site Atlas Shrugs.

Recently, after reading parts of the Koran, I have become a bit frustrated that no one seems to understand the magnitude of the Muslim threat. People look at at the Pew report and they seem to think that the results are mixed, and that there really “aren’t that many” radical Muslims. So I sat down today and actually ran the numbers; I’m attaching a page from that analysis which shows my results. My hope is that you may wish to publish them, or portions thereof, in one of your columns.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that with 1.6B Muslims, even if 10% of them were radical, that’s 160 million people: about half of the total US population. But in looking closer at their survey, I’d put the number closer to 25%.

My analysis focused only on the questions about Sharia law: (1) Should the law of the land be Sharia law?; and (2) should that apply to everyone, including non-Muslims? Pew asked question (1) in countries that account for about a billion Muslims, and question (2) in countries that account for about 830 million. If you accept their results in just the countries they surveyed, we learn that:

— 70%, or 700 million Muslims out of the billion represented by Q1 of their survey, want Sharia law to be the law of the land;

— 32%, or 266 million Muslims out of the 840 million represented by Q2 of their survey, want to force it upon everyone.

I don’t know about you, but I’d say that alone represents over a quarter billion “radical” Muslims, with only just over half (53%) of their total population accounted for by the survey. But we can make reasonable (and conservative) assumptions about the rest of them, and the results are even scarier. I extrapolated Pew’s results in each region (e.g., Central Asia) across the whole region, using the smallest percentages that they found for the countries in the region they did survey. The lower-bound estimates I get for the world Muslim population are as follows:

— 63%, or just under a billion Muslims, want Sharia law;

— 38% of those Muslims, or about 370 million, want to force it on everyone.

That’s 24% of all the Muslims in the world that are, by my definition at least, radical. And that’s more than the population of the US and Canada put together…..Read the whole post with charts here……

 One more thing.  You may wish to Watch the Islamic State’s Latest Execution VIDEO, and then ask oursleves - When will this unnatural fear of Islam end?  Or perhaps the question  we should be asking is this - Why would any sane person not be afraid?  I just had a thought.  Is there a scientific term used to describe people who have no fear of things of which they should be afraid?  Yes there is.  It's called being nuts, or a leftist, but as Jonah Goldberg says - excuse the redundancy!