Anyone else think it sounds like John Ruskin is borderline paranoid and wants the Illinois prison authority to open a Gitmo style concentration camp in the Prairie State? Just read his over-the-top, pernicious number-crunching: Illinois’ Domestic Terrorism: Part II

(But remember, it’s ok for terrorists to get guns according to the partisan conservatives. Hypocrisy, thy name is “conservative”.)

Update: “Truthful James” (aka Pete Speer, Peter Dee) in comments at Illinois Review points out numerous errors in Mr. Ruskin’s post…

John –

Certain of your numbers do not jibe. For instance the summary of the Pew Study reads

“…That sentiment is strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent of them say it can often be justified, 13 percent say sometimes and 11 percent say rarely…”

That would men the percentages within the age group younger than 30. You extrapolate that those percentages against the total population of Muslims within Illinois.

At the same time you refer to ["]strongly believe["] as a category. I can not find it

Since the Pew Study focused that question on “attacks on their religion” I am surprised that the total is so low.

The most interesting part of the Pew Study — not mentioned by you– is the following:

“…Even so, U.S. Muslims are far less accepting of suicide attacks than Muslims in many other nations. In surveys Pew conducted last year, support in some Muslim countries exceeded 50 percent, while it was considered justifiable by about one in four Muslims in Britain and Spain, and one in three in France…”

So there ya go. Here’s to conservatives who choose to be honest rather than partisan and xenophobic.