tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post4510526102275853892..comments2024-03-16T00:26:41.051-04:00Comments on Scaramouche: The Numbers Don't Add Up in This OnIslam Piecescaramouchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-14220109403877728462012-05-06T07:54:22.354-04:002012-05-06T07:54:22.354-04:00I call it djinning up the stats.I call it djinning up the stats.scaramouchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-50145958190230954642012-05-05T23:41:26.423-04:002012-05-05T23:41:26.423-04:00Gross--and probably grossly dishonest--overestimat...Gross--and probably grossly dishonest--overestimates of the number of Moslems in the U. S. have been around for a while. Some of these "estimates" have been achieved by counting all persons with Middle Eastern-sounding last names, who show up on databases like voting rolls, or who identify themselves as being of Middle Eastern extraction in polls, as automatically being practitioners of the Religion of Peace. The reality is, of course, that the overwhelming majority of Arab-Americans are Christian; e.g, here in Jacksonville, Florida, we have a very large Arab-American population . . . which is nearly all Christian (predominantly Catholics, but with a sprinkling of Orthodox and Protestants).<br /><br />In some cases, the inflated numbers are arrived at by shamelessly applying arbitrary fudge factors to uncertain estimates of mosque congregation size, e.g, a CAIR reckoning in the early 2000s, that took already inflated congregation numbers given by a relatively small number of imams, averaged them, multiplied the average by the estimated number of U. S. mosques, then multiplied that by a factor of three (just because!), to arrive at a number of about six million U. S. Moslems. That was later, apparently by some miraculous process, bumped up to eight million. And people question Moslem claims to have advanced mathematics during the Dark Ages!Carlos Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253355647824872032noreply@blogger.com