Glenn Beck: Ten Percent Of all Muslims Are Terrorists

[Mr Bean]

I normally ignore the Rodeo clown that is Glenn Beck on a good day. Sometimes he says some pretty amazing stuff because not only does it sound insane, in context it does makes no sense.

And in this case, if Glenn Beck is right, America is kinda fucked.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/0 ... 92726.html

Glenn Beck said he thinks ten percent of all Muslims are terrorists.

As ThinkProgress pointed out, Beck's estimate would mean that roughly 157 million Muslims in the world are terrorists.

Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck decried the relative lack of coverage that the news media is giving to the figures he discusses day after day on his radio and television shows.

"We have revolutionaries here in America speaking -- American citizens speaking -- about an open violent revolution and no one will cover it!" Beck said. "Would they cover it if you had tape of al Qaeda saying they're going to get out in the streets, they want violence? Of course you would!"

Beck surmised that the media don't think that the threats he describes are sufficient enough to cover seriously. However, he said, they should look at the havoc a relatively small number of "Islamic terrorists" had caused:

"What is the number of Islamic terrorists? One percent? I think it's closer to ten percent but the rest of the PC world will tell you, 'oh no, it's minuscule.' OK, well, let's take you at your one percent. Look at the havoc one percent of Muslims causing in the rest of the world. You don't think one percent, half a percent here in the United States of radicals, of people who want to violently overthrow the government, is a problem?"


UPDATE: As The Huffington Post's Sebastian Howard pointed out on Twitter, Beck's figure of ten percent is hardly new. In fact, Beck used the same statistic in his 2003 book, "The Real America." In it, Beck says that he has concluded, after "reading and prayer," that, while ninety percent of Islam is peaceful, "ten percent wants to see us dead." The remaining ten percent, he writes, is "composed of extreme radicals who have taken Islam through a time tunnel and twisted it into something ugly and barbaric."

As the story notes, holy shit we got over 157 million people out to get us. That's half the US population
(OAN:It was not a week ago that on O'Rielly's show Beck said it was impossible for him to lie on TV because they would yank him off TV if he ever lied on TV)

[Edi]

This is Beck again preaching to the choir and being completely divorced from reality. He pulls some numbers out of his ass in order to tell his base what they want to hear and he's so blinded by his own ego he thinks he actually has a point.

I can also guarantee that some of the numbers might actually be less divorced from reality than one might think, because the US has not made any friends in the Islamic world in the past ten years when it has invaded and occupied two Muslim countries, agitated against several more, conducted missile strikes in yet more and generally given a very good impression that stamping out Islam is an American policy goal. Killing some hundred thousand or so and a few more tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan hasn't improved things.

In Afghanistan right now 25% of the population think attacks against foreign troops are justified and the number is climbing. Pakistan is a nation of nearly 140 million people and US approval there isn't anything I'd invest heavily in. Iran has a few dozen million people more and the Arab countries quite a few all told.

Saying that all of the people who dislike the US there are terrorists is pretty extreme, but these rantings, when taken with the appropriate amount of salt, are not as insane as many of his other ramblings.

The one-liner by dantheman40k was sent to the Barrel.

[Edi]

Bullshit by Highdumbshit Laan and Themightytom sent to the Barrel.

EDIT: Chris O'Farrel's one-liner sent to the Barrel

I don't give a fuck about who posts substance-free oneliners in this thread, I will oppress every single fucking one of them.

If I find myself spending more time than I recently have on the forums, this phenomenon will not stay confined to this thread alone either.

[PainRack]

But on the other hand, the world most populous Muslim country loves your president.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/1 ... 81356.html

It would be interesting to see any statistics on the US popularity after Obama tour through Indonesia, or his reception in the Muslim world after the 2009 Cairo speech.

But then again, there's also this.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010 ... elief.html

[Shroom Man 777]

I don't get it.

Blenn Geck says: "You don't think one percent, half a percent here in the United States of radicals, of people who want to violently overthrow the government, is a problem?"

But wasn't he the same person who riles them up by claiming that barry (which is what we call him in the Hill) Saddam Hussein (which is what we call him in Da Nang) Obamasamabinladenaramamcnamara (which is what we call him in the 1960s) was a secret Muslim, and encouraging people to bring their guns to political rallies?

[Lonestar]

But on the other hand, the world most populous Muslim country loves your president.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/1 ... 81356.html

It would be interesting to see any statistics on the US popularity after Obama tour through Indonesia, or his reception in the Muslim world after the 2009 Cairo speech.

But then again, there's also this.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010 ... elief.html

Not all Muslims are Arabs/Persians/Punjabis. It helps that Indonesia was the recipient of a very high profile relief mission by the USN, which did a better job then the local military in givng a turd about refugees. So a for lot of Indonesians their expierience with the US Military has been a positive one,as opposed to "Drone flies overhead, drops bomb". IIRC we've also sent amphibs and hospital ships to Indonesia on humanitarian missions independent of natural disasters as well.

[Pelranius]

America is also very popular in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo.

[someone_else]

while ninety percent of Islam is peaceful, "ten percent wants to see us dead."

And if you look at history, they do have some reasons to.

But anyway, that alone doesn't make those guys all terrorists en masse.

But 157 fucking millions? They can SWARM and conquer the US any time with sheer number alone. That's hilarious.

[PainRack]

Not all Muslims are Arabs/Persians/Punjabis. It helps that Indonesia was the recipient of a very high profile relief mission by the USN, which did a better job then the local military in givng a turd about refugees. So a for lot of Indonesians their expierience with the US Military has been a positive one,as opposed to "Drone flies overhead, drops bomb". IIRC we've also sent amphibs and hospital ships to Indonesia on humanitarian missions independent of natural disasters as well.

I know. But you're also looking at the world largest Muslim country being favourable to the States and Malaysia, arguably the world most modern thinking Muslim nation also being favourable towards President Obama.

Its a HUGE turnaround from the 90s when the World Bank and IMF actions turned huge areas of Indonesia and Malaysia anti US.