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Is religious extremism a minority within the vast majority of religious persons ?

Asked by NerdyKeith (5489points) April 19th, 2016

his question is more directly in reference to Islamic beliefs. Over the past few years due to the acts of terror performed by ISIS, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda Islam has been given a bad reputation. This has occurred to such an extent, that many have been accused of being Islamophobic.

It likely that a lot of this has to do with bad media representation leaning to fear mongering, stereotyping and vilifying of an entire group. But what is the reality here? Is the amount of extremism amongst Muslims, much the same as the amount of extremists amongst other religions such as Christianity?

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