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The Statistical Analysis of Islamic Doctrines
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Moorthy Muthuswamy, an
expert on terrorism in India. He grew up in India, where he
had firsthand experience with political Islam and jihad. He
moved to America in 1984 to pursue graduate studies. In
1992, he received a doctorate in nuclear physics from Stony
Brook University, New York. Since 1999 he has extensively
published ideas on neutralizing political Islam's terror
war as it is imposed on unbelievers. His new book is
Defeating Political Islam: The New Cold War.
http://www.amazon.com/Defeating-Political-Islam-New-Cold/dp/1591027047
FP: Moorthy Muthuswamy, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Muthuswamy: Thank you for the opportunity, Jamie.
FP: We're here today to talk about statistical Islam.
First, introduce for us the context of statistics in a
scientific analysis.
Muthuswamy: Statistics is a tool of science.
In doing a scientific analysis of a large pool of data,
statistical analysis is by and far the most effective way
of interpreting or extracting useful information.
Especially in the social context, data may often represent
views or outlook in varying or even in opposing directions.
The statistical synthesis consists of representation of
data in certain percentages that clearly bring out the
overall thrust of what should otherwise be a confusing set
of information.
Statistics is especially powerful in exposing the intent of
an entity that may cleverly camouflage itself. For
instance, a mafia don's ten percent of the activities may
be geared toward charity, but an overwhelming seventy
percent may involve illegal or criminal activities geared
toward enriching himself and his cronies. The percentages
reveal the don as a thug who invokes charity in order to
camouflage his violent lawbreaking track record.
FP: Ok, so why statistical Islam?
Muthuswamy: Islam is a social phenomenon -- and a complex
one at that.
Let us start with Islamic scriptures. Portions of Islamic
scriptures speak ill of unbelievers or their violent
conquest, but also show benevolence toward humanity. There
are Muslims who are violent terrorists and there are those
who are genuine moderates. It must be clear that we have to
invoke statistical tools to understand the nature and
thrust of Islam and Muslims. Some very exciting new
research has been conducted within the past few years on
topics ranging from the Islamic doctrines to Muslim
outlook.
I would like to address the often-overlooked but the
central question in the war on terror: is the Muslim
outlook vis-'a-vis terror sponsorship driven by Islamic
doctrines?
FP: Summarize for us statistical analysis of Islamic
doctrines.
Muthuswamy: More than most religions or ancient ideologies,
Islam's foundational texts may be well-placed for a
statistical analysis. These texts form Islam's trilogy --
the Koran, the Hadiths and the Sira. The Koran plays a
unique and commanding role in the trilogy as it is seen to
represent "revelations" from God, given through its
messenger prophet Muhammed. The Hadiths represent sayings
of Muhammed and the Sira is a biography of him. By most
accounts, Muslims attach great deal of importance to the
trilogy in guiding their life. Importantly, these texts, in
particular the Koran, appear to have remained in just one
form over a thousand years. Hence, these texts can be seen
as a reliable and critical "data" upon which a useful
statistical analysis can be carried out.
Bill Warner of the Center for the Study of Political Islam
has pioneered the statistical analysis of Islamic doctrines
and has come up with some of the most incisive and
groundbreaking results. Extensive discussion of his work is
given in my book. But let me refer to a synthesis that
stands out, and conclusively defines what we are up
against: 61 percent of the Koran talks ills of unbelievers
or calls for their violent conquest and subjugation, but
only 2.6 percent of it talks about the overall good of
humanity.
The above statistical analysis forms the basis not just for
contesting but even for comprehensively discrediting the
often quoted description of Islam as a "religion of peace."
In fact, an appropriate and statistically acceptable
characterization is that Islamic doctrines overwhelmingly
preach dislike, hatred and conquest of unbelievers and that
this material constitutes the majority of the content in
the Koran. Using this statistical basis, one may also
interpret that the token "goodness" toward unbelievers is
present in the Koran in order to camouflage the true intent
of subjugating and conquering them. When this anti-
unbeliever-rich Islamic doctrine is preached through
mainstream mosques, one could justifiably claim that
neither the mosques nor the people who deliver the sermons
there nor those who listen to them are likely to develop a
moderate outlook toward unbelievers.
FP: So expand on your observations on the Muslim outlook as
derived from statistics.
Muthuswamy: It is one thing to have a theology with certain
attributes, but the question is how well it is influencing
its adherents and in what way.
During the past sixty years from every Muslim majority
region of South Asia -- without exception -- upon gaining
power Muslims have set about marginalizing and worse --
expelled most non-Muslims to the neighboring non-Muslim
majority areas. This occurred despite the people sharing
everything -- including ethnicity, culture, language, but
excluding religion. Most of these expulsions occurred
before 1975, when money from Saudi Arabia was starting to
flow into the region to immerse the population with even
more Islam. This region of Asia is home to about to a third
of the worldwide population of 1.3 billion Muslims. This is
significant.
Any non-Muslim majority region of the world with a higher
local Muslim population growth rate has to worry about its
very existence in the coming years.
There is also a strong correlation between the increased
funding for the propagation of Islam and the worsening of
Muslims' uneasy relations with unbelievers -- in the form
of insurgencies, terrorism and riots that extend across the
world. This is seen in India, the Philippines, Thailand,
America, Russia, Europe, to name a few.
There is one and only common denominator in all of this:
Islam. The statistics of hatred and conquest present in the
Islamic doctrines must be the source of the conflicts.
We now reach important conclusion: increased exposure to
Islamic doctrine is seen to propel Muslim populations to
embrace jihad and sharia (a medieval repressive Islamic
"law") fervently.
FP: How do we let data drive policy in the ongoing war on
terror?
Muthuswamy: The above scientific analysis points to a
definite connection between Islamic doctrine and Muslim
propensity for violence directed at unbelievers.
Statistical Islam helps us, probably for the first time,
comprehensively contest misinformed notions upon which
flawed Western policies vis-'a-vis Islam/Muslims have been
based. Without statistics we didn't have a case, only
opinions. Policymakers and the pundits could ignore
opinions, but would be hard-pressed to discount scientific
assertions based upon statistics.
Before proceeding further, let me take care to note that
misinformed notions of Islam are prevalent among both
Republicans and Democrats and were also true of former
President George W. Bush.
I am now going to single out President Obama as he is the
one providing overall leadership to waging the war on
terror:
Data analysis strongly discounts President Obama's
assertion given in the first interview of his presidency to
the Saudi Arabian TV network, Al-Hurra: "[w]e cannot paint
with a broad brush a faith [Islam] as a consequence of the
violence that is done in that faith's name."
The analysis -- subject to data and statistics -- suggests
that Muslim populations strongly driven by Islamic
doctrines find "mutual interest and mutual respect" vis-'a-
vis Western civilization rather elusive. In this context,
President Barak Obama's declaration in his inauguration is
really a ticket to nowhere -- "[t]o the Muslim world, we
seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual
respect."
But we ought to read back to Mr. Obama the assertion he has
made that data should drive policy -- and take him and his
administration to task.
FP: Moorthy Muthuswamy, thank you for joining Frontpage
Interview.
Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine's editor. He holds a
Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and
Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of Canadian
Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union and is the co-
editor (with David Horowitz) of The Hate America Left. He
edited and wrote the introduction to David Horowitz's Left
Illusions. His new book is United in Hate: The Left's
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