How Many Muslims Are Terrorists? Submitted by Prof. Sharma
(India), Nov 8, 2006 at 06:32 I am often asked to guess as to
how many Muslims are jihadists. The easiest answer is: enough to
commit the terrorist acts detailed in this 1,000-page-long
Islamic Terror Timeline. But if you are looking for a more
analytical response, I think the math goes something like this:
There are between 1.2 and 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. Half
are women. While a substantial percentage of Islamic women
support jihad, less than one in fifty Islamic terrorist acts is
actually perpetrated by a female. That leaves us with a maximum
pool of jihadists that is just over 50% of the total population.
The overwhelming preponderance of terrorist acts are conducted
by young Muslim men 15 to 30 years old. This age bracket covers
about half of the male population of the Islamic world, leaving
us with a potential jihad pool of 25% of all Muslims -
approximately 300 million people. The most logical way to
determine the percentage of Muslims