Here we go again

Breaking news: some people are crazy idiots.

OK, so according to Wikipedia, there's somewhere between 900 million to 1.4 billion followers if Islam in the world. The CIA says that about 1% of Americans are Muslim, which comes out to about 3,011,399 Muslims in America. For the record, that's about .33% or less of the Muslim population in the world.

Out of those three million, let's interview just over a thousand of them. We'll ask them broadly-phrased questions about, essentially, whether violent acts 'often' are justified to defend someone's deeply-held faith.

Predictably, there will be a few crazies. Please note that a quarter of the population surveyed winds up being slightly over 250 people.

Oh god, run for the hills! In a hypothetical survey, 250 people out of a population of three million said that they feel violence is often justified! We're all DOOMED!

Or alternately it's a somewhat flawed survey being published under a hysterical, sensationalist headline.

Out of idle curiosity, I wonder what the results of a similar survey of Christians would reveal. Hmm.