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There are about three million Muslims in America, and roughly 300 of them have been convicted of jihadism in some form — financial support, weapon supply and other criminal acts up to and including murder — since 9/11. The numbers are increasing every year. Last year, at least 80 people were charged in the U.S. in jihad-related cases. But homegrown jihadism of the lone-wolf variety is difficult to predict since, like Canadian Parliament Hill terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, most have no previous record.

President Obama does not help matters when he says, as he did on a CNN show about terrorism, “It’s very important for us to align ourselves with the 99.9 per cent of Muslims who are looking for the same thing we’re looking for.” That’s a number Obama conjured from thin air to comfort himself and to chill honest conversation on the subject. He really has no idea of the breakdown in opinions on the question of what Muslims in general “are looking for.”

Even though the core jihadists are a tiny percentage of the whole, there are plenty of them

But if such a breakdown is something that interests you, I recommend a short, but highly informative video in the Clarion Project’s “Challenging Extremism/Promoting Dialogue” series, animated by Canadian Muslim reformist Raheel Raza, entitled, “The Untold Story of Muslim Opinions and Demographics.” Raza, a Sunni Muslim devoted to democracy and pluralism, who has been speaking out against the “disease” of radical Islam for 20 years, is a Canadian treasure. Passionate, transparent and fearless (she has received many fatwas and death threats for her outspoken views), she is a great ambassador for her faith. And very angry at those who would patronize her by pretending that the problem lies with a few “horrible bad people” (as politically correct actor Ben Affleck put it) and not, as she proceeds to tell us, with a very disturbing percentage of the global Islamic population.