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ISLAMOPHOBIA
At the time of the 9/11 there were about 900 M peaceful Muslims in the world. As for Al-Qaeda’s numbers, on ABC’s “This Week” in June 2010, Leon Panetta (Director of the CIA) said that there are probably less than 50 Al-Qaeda members hiding out in Pakistan.
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But Let’s allow for the possibility of thousands more in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, & other places in which Al-Qaeda could be hanging out. All told, let’s speculate that our total complement of Al-Qaeda is 9,000 or less.
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Given the overall population of Muslims in the world (900 M) and the Al-Qaeda number as 9,000, that would mean we have a ratio of 9 Al-Qaeda for every 900,000 Muslims, or, dividing by 9, about 1 Al-Qaeda member for every 100,000 peace-ful Muslims.
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It is quite ridiculous to make a judgment about 1M Muslims who have never attacked Americans based on the attitudes/actions of one member of Al-Qaeda. This is an eg of ignoring the base rate.Its called Representativeness heuristic. Muslims may get mad just as you and I do,+
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+ but they do not believe that the Koran permits the indiscriminate killing of innocent people, as was done on 9/11 by Al-Qaeda. Thus, the actions of Al-Qaeda are not representative of the general population of Muslims, & have almost nothing to do with the Islam.
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Representative heuristic bias occurs when the similarity of objects or events confuses people's thinking regarding the probability of an outcome. People frequently mistakenly believe that 2 similar things or events are more closely correlated than they actually are.
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Source(Quoted from)-

Social Psychology(13th edition)
Robert A. Baron
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Nyla R. Branscombe