It’s weird how people are always talking about needing facts & empirical evidence to back up assertions, yet a couple of polls, some anecdotal “evidence”, and vague references to having studied cherry-picked bits about Islam seems to suffice for condemning Islam as the nexus of all the ills of a enormous swath of humanity.

BTW, regarding that Pew survey it clearly states (on page 148 of the PDF):

It should be noted that practical difficulties in conducting multinational surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls. In some countries, the achieved samples suffered from imbalances in the number of women or men interviewed, while in some countries a lack of adequate, national-level statistics made it difficult to assess the accuracy of educational characteristics among the sampled population.

It then goes on to list the numerous practical difficulties.

I have yet to see anyone post a scientific report by qualified experts in radicalization or terrorism (not to mention Islamic studies and Arabic) indicating that the problem stems from Islam itself (as opposed to individual Muslims and/or radical groups and their environments).

I find that rather odd coming people who seem to pride themselves on their ability to think critically and who (in my experience) usually consider empirical data to be of the utmost importance & value.

I also find it odd in light of the numerous Pages I’ve created providing resources on the study of terrorism & radicalization. It’s almost as if people prefer to be emotional instead of rational about this particular subject (which is exactly the response groups like ISIS want). It’s truly baffling.