Interesante colección de datos sobre el radicalismo islámico. El artículo de Pipes ahonda en la dificultad de acotar una definición de "radicalismo islámico" y en la disparidad de resultados que uno obtiene dependiendo de la definición elegida.
¿Cuántos musulmanes justifican los atentados del 11-S?
Gallup polled over 50,000 Muslims across 10 countries and found that, if one defines radicals as those who deemed the 9/11 attacks "completely justified," their number constitutes about 7 percent of the total population. But if one includes Muslims who considered the attacks "largely justified," their ranks jump to 13.5 percent. Adding those who deemed the attacks "somewhat justified" boosts the number of radicals to 36.6 percent. Which figure should one adopt?
¿Cuántos musulmanes apoyan la aplicación de la Sharia?
A University of Jordan survey revealed that large majorities of Jordanians, Palestinians, and Egyptians wish the Shari'a to be the only source of Islamic law - but only one-third of Syrians. Indonesian survey and election results led R. William Liddle and Saiful Mujani in 2003 to conclude that the number of Islamists "is no more than 15 percent of the total Indonesian Muslim population." In contrast, a 2008 survey of 8,000 Indonesian Muslims by Roy Morgan Research found 40 percent of Indonesians favoring hadd criminal punishments (such as cutting the hands of thieves) and 52 per cent favoring some form of Islamic legal code.
(HT: José)
