Tooth-to-Tail Ratio Or, the illusion of the moderate Muslim majority

Via Jonathan

 

Why the claim that “the majority of Muslims are peaceful” is pure fantasy

1.		Tiny team wins — large crowd loses All of us have heard, although in a different context, that it is not size that matters, but technique… Snicker as much as you like, but that is actually true. A lioness cannot match a buffalo in one-on-one combat, and a pride of lionesses is certainly outnumbered and “outhorned” (outgunned) by a herd of buffalos. So how can they win despite these odds; how can five to six lionesses disrupt fifty to sixty buffalos to hunt down the one buffalo they want to seize? Because the buffalos are just a crowd, but the lionesses are a team. Victory is achieved not by a large but otherwise loitering and incoherent crowd, but by a core-sized, action-oriented and coherent team.
2.		The tooth-to-tail ratio, or the fighters and the supporters

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