But how many active terrorists are out there? The State Department supposedly had a list of 65,000 names, but that was before 9/11. Certainly, there are more now, but not anything close to a million, and, actively, probably, around 100,000. The world population is approaching 7 billion. Don’t place all one billion or so Muslim’s in the terrorist pot. Only a very few extremists are the problem. It is a bit disconcerting, though, that our government is not really sure if there are 1 million or 7 million Muslims in the U.S. Then again, we shouldn’t categorize people by religion, so, so much for that. The U.S. Census has it right in the middle, or 4 million. What is truly troublesome is that former Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was asked, how is the U.S. faring against terrorists’ extremist ideology in the global “battle of ideas,” and he gave our country a D or D+ grade.
To recap about Middle East religion:
o Egypt Sunni Muslim
o Turkey Sunni Muslim
o Saudi Arabia Sunni Muslim
o Syria Sunni Muslim
o Jordan Sunni Muslim
o Pakistan Sunni (77%) Muslim
o Iraq Shi’a (63%) Muslim – Sunni (35%)
o Iran Shi’a (89%) Muslim
o Israel Jewish (77%) – Muslim (16%)
o Lebanon Christian (41%)–Sunni (27%) –Shi’a (26%)
o India Hindu (81%) – Muslim (13%)
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To recap about Middle East religion:
o Egypt Sunni Muslim
o Turkey Sunni Muslim
o Saudi Arabia Sunni Muslim
o Syria Sunni Muslim
o Jordan Sunni Muslim
o Pakistan Sunni (77%) Muslim
o Iraq Shi’a (63%) Muslim – Sunni (35%)
o Iran Shi’a (89%) Muslim
o Israel Jewish (77%) – Muslim (16%)
o Lebanon Christian (41%)–Sunni (27%) –Shi’a (26%)
o India Hindu (81%) – Muslim (13%)
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The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 200, but began a spectacular recovery of 289, then settling to +12 at 8196. World markets mostly fell. Crude oil rose two bucks to $38.81/barrel. Gold increased $6.60/toz to $816.70.
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