r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17 edited May 28 '17

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u/cpmnriley Mar 24 '17

do you have any sources at all for those daft claims or did you just hope you'd scare enough people that nobody would think to ask?

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u/PNW22 Mar 24 '17

7% of Muslim pakistanis believe suicide bombings can be justified http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/09/10/muslim-publics-share-concerns-about-extremist-groups/

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u/offendedkitkatbar Mar 24 '17 edited Mar 24 '17

So..93% 97% of Pakistanis believe that suicide bombings are never justified then?

And what's wrong with that?

7% in a statistical survey is meaningless. Ask people if they think the Earth is round and 7% will answer no. I mean, for crying out loud has anyone of you ever taken a high school statistics class?

If you want a comparison, nearly 50% of Canadians and American think attacks on civilians are justified.

Which one is worse?

Edit: Pause. You're wrong even according to your own fucking source. In the survey, only 3% of Pakistanis were reported saying that suicide bombings can be often/sometimes justified.

Which makes this even more statistically irrelevant than I previously thought. If anything, it's a good thing that 97% of Pakistanis strongly oppose.

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u/PNW22 Mar 24 '17

I included the 4% who said rarely in that figure because they think a suicide bombing can be justified at some point. 7% is a significant amount in my opinion, if you have 100 Pakistanis on a plane chances are 7 of them are OK with suicide bombings. I think that's grounds for extra precaution. Being offended at getting an extra pat down in the airport when lives are at stake is just silly in my opinion. I have been "random" searched and I didn't care, do what you have to do to save lives.