And I agree .. born agains and jehovah witnesses are much much worse..

and muslims have integrated into society rather well.. some even keeping their religious ideals..

There is just a small group who haven’t it.. one bad apple makes them all look bad

Ok,firstly regarding the survey:Bearing in mind that I’m no statistician, I’m a math student who simply sucks at statistics,I could generally tell you that this survey hasnt been conducted in the way that it should have been in. I could also tell you that no survey can capture the entire sample population.

What we generally try to do is to get a random sample of a wide cross-section of the population.So, ideally from a solely statistics point of view, this guy shouldnt have just gone to Bradford and other very densely populated areas, but around the UK. From the random newsagent in Bradford to the posh investment banker in Central London to the university student in Oxford to the radical who protests infront of the US embassy.(not necessarily like that, but u get what I’m trying to get at here, right?!) More than the SIZE of the sample(which naturally matters) is the question as to whether he has captured a random cross-section of the sample population, as opposed to sampling a rather biased section of the population. (I could have given u the exact statistical terminology, if my notes were at hand,but they arent!)

As much as he seems to have done his research to a certain extent, his main suirvey seems to have been centred in more highly muslim populated areas in Bradford and London.In these areas,thanks to incidents such as the Bradford riots in 2001-02, the emotions do run a bit high.

Also he hasnt given us how exactly he posed the question. Even though we may not think about it, the question “Do you think 9-11 is a conspiracy of the US?” and “whom do u think is responsible for 9-11?” would result in different answers. Little things, I know. but you’d be suprised to see there is a big difference in the responses to how you phrase a question.Alot of things like that, if Stoke-by-Trent has a 3% of worth of muslim population, surely all of that 3% cannot be playing football, whatever happened to the others? Same with cases, about busymarkets in Bradford and London, the people who bound upto you to talk are usually the people who are strongly opinionated, you have to go to the ones who ignore you, it’s those peoples’ opinion, that make a survey a more rounded one.

This is why,statistics students are primiarily taught not to believe sweeping statements such as “one in four think Diana was murdered to stop her marrying a Muslim. ”

I’m sorry for the rant on all the statistics.Strangely I seem to be in the mood. and pls excuse for my misquotation of terminology, like I told u before, I suck at my stats.