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Mind you, 5 million out of 66 million is still a great number.
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It’s about 7.5%, or less than 1 in every 10 people. When you consider that Muslims are the second largest religious group in the world (around 23% of worldwide population) after Christians, it turns out they’re very under-represented and not a very large group at all in the UK.
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Additionally, according to the research site they quoted:
the number is most likely to grow further.
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A projected rise of 0.8% from 2010 to 2020 isn’t particularly terrifying. Compare that to the 3.9% increase in unaffiliated people over the same period, which is bigger even than the 3.4% estimated rise of Muslim population from 2010 to
2050.
I’m sure somewhere there’s people crowing about how the atheists are going to out-populate the religious folk and murder them all, but we would dismiss that as silly scaremongering, wouldn’t we?
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Not to the 30% percent, yes. That 30% percent comes from a survey among the people. They asked them questions like: "What's the percentage of muslims in France, in your opinion?".
It's no wonder people got it wrong. Statistics are *not a matter of opinion* lol. This is really dumb.
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The purpose of the survey isn’t to gather accurate demographic statistics, it’s to compare public perception with the actual statistics. This is a useful comparison to do because it can give an indication of public opinion and perception – in this case it indicates potential biases, discriminations, and negative opinion of Muslims among the general population.
But please, continue with your dumb strawman.
[citation needed]
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Varrok is right. Also, keep in mind that more than half of French prisoners are muslims.
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France also has a very small prison population – 68,514, around 0.1% of the total population (France’s population is around 66.03 million people). When you have a very low population you’re going to get skewed statistics; add in that ethnic minorities are more likely to be over-represented in prisons, and France’s historically poor record of integrating Muslims, and guess what happens?
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Also, is "the alt-right" the latest overused buzzword? I've heard it around and everyone who says it means something different.
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I know right? We should just call them what they really are: fascists.