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maybe? 5% of 1.6 billion is still 80 million people looking to take away freedom of speech and life, which is exactly the purpose of Sharia’h law. And I do not think it is 5% of Muslims who aspire to a global Islamic domination; actually, I am going to tell political correctness to go f--- itself and say I think the percentage is considerably higher than that. Getting back to my spider comparison, I do not think venomous spiders could teach non-venomous spiders how to become dangerous to humans, but with Islam, extremists can maliciously target moderates using guilt and carefully-chosen passages from the Quran to turn a relatively peaceful man into a violent danger to civilisation. I am pretty sure spiders throughout the entire expanse of human history have not killed as many people as Muslims have in the past year. So, if fear of spiders is justified, then so is fear of Islam. even on his worst day, a spider with homicidal, psychopathic tendencies and an all-consuming, faith-inspired desire to kill all non-spiders because he thinks that is what the spider god Arachne wants from him, could only kill one person with his bite; it is not like he could hijack a plane, with like-minded spiders, and fly it into a building killing thousands instantly. What Happens When You Criticise Islam? I mentioned earlier I think the percentage is higher than 5%. Now, let me explain why I think it is: When the Jyllens-Posten newspaper printed pictures of Muhammad in 2006, the Islamic world lost its mind and staged global protests and riots. Due to the extreme aniconism practiced in Islam, the drawings in question caused deaths and incalculable damage, as the Danish government came under heavy attack. Here is the short version of the Islamic response: Eleven ambassadors from Muslim-majority countries--Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Libya, Morocco--and the Head of the Palestinian General Delegation--sent this letter to Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on 12 October 2005: P a g e | 122