Except it doesn&#x27;t. IRA, LRA, KKK, Mormon extremist groups, Cubans (for a while if you got hijacked you could safely assume you were being forcibly redirected to Havana), Nationalist movements too numerous to count etc. No one who has seriously studied violent non-state actors believes that Muslims are more prone to violent extremism than any other group.<p>Islamist groups have certainly gotten the &quot;best&quot; press for a while and have the most prominent groups whose stated goals essentially boil down to &quot;world domination&quot; (but their plans for world domination have only slightly less chance of success than mine, so relax on that front). That, however tells us exactly nothing about the propensity of Muslims to become extremists.<p>Extremism is no more common among muslims than it is among any other large group unless you limit your definition of extremists to Islamic extremists.<p>Edit: grammar.