What percent of muslims are extremists?

Answer 1

Nobody can give an exact figure. But before going into that, we need to understand how some muslims are terrorists, some are not.

Muslims are followers of their prophet Muhammad. Whose biographies are recorded in books called hadeeths/hadiths.

Surprising as it may seem, most Muslims care little for the politics of violence and just wish to go to work, make an honest wage, and raise a family. Some however, choose to follow these religious records of Muhammad which depicted him as a criminal, thereby turning themselves into terrorists. These religious records written by the earliest muslim leaders who were themselves ardent followers of muhammad, are called hadeeths/hadiths.

Bearing in mind that Muhammad himself is the personification of the religion that he started, it is therefore not surprising that many zealous muslims will endeavor to follow the practices recorded in these books.

The good news is, not all muslims agree to these writings. Some muslims choose to only rely on the main religious text, called the Q'uran. Unfortunately, the Q'uran reveals very little about the dealings of the person of muhammad and is itself non-contextual. As a result, there is frequently little option left but to refer to some of these hadeeths for backdrops to some of the Q'uranic teachings.

Which inevitably results in many areas of grey interpretations. When one refers heavily on the hadeeths, one may un-knowingly pick up some of the recorded practices which are criminal by today's standards. A simple reference to any on-line library of hadeeths will reveal this.

Some however, choose only to rely on the Q'uran and avoid the hadeeths altogether. These are called Q'uranists.

But whether or not a muslim becomes a moderate or fundamentalist muslim depends largely on the interpretation given to him/her by their religious teachers because the Q'uran is not only non-contextual it is also only to be interpreted by an Arabic speaking teacher. Who, if he relies on these recorded biographies of Muhammad in the hadeeths will lead those who follow him straight into religious terrorism.

We do not know how many are fundamentalists and how many are not. We know however, that there are no barriers for a moderate muslim to become terrorist by venturing onto these hadeeths. The number of terrorists may be relatively small at this juncture compared to the moderates, but the potential to swing the moderates over into the terror camp is huge.

Answer 2

Answer Athose who are true Muslims are not extremists and those who are extremists are not categorized as Muslims. Answer Bnot less than extremists from other religions. However, extremists of other religions are usually called by their nationalities while Muslim extremists are called by their Islamic faith to bring to others wrong impressions about Islam. Refer to question below.

Answer 3

Most of the Muslims believe that the extremist are not real Muslim because they kill which Allah has forbiden.

So that means 0% of Muslims are terrorist but 100% of extremist are terrorists.

Answer 4

None of Muslims are terrorists. Some individuals may do some terrorist acts as in all other religions and faiths. However, media is biased. When Christian Americans do terrorist acts they call them Americans but when Muslim Americans do terrorist acts they call them Muslims to give the impression that Islam is related to terrorism which is not the case. Refer to question below.

Even if the terrorists who claim to be Muslim were seriously counted as Muslims, as percentage, they would still be a rounding error. The overwhelming majority of Muslims (like people of any faith or grouping) are far more interested in coming home to their kids after a hard day's work than any machinations of international warfare and subjugation.

Answer 5

There are 1.3 billion Muslims all over the world.

Approximately 6% are extremists, Because they strictly follow their holy scripture.

Answer 6

Within the percentage of extremists of other religions/faiths or less.

Answer 7

not different than percent of extrimists in other religions and/or nationalities.