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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Mika to Santorum: Forget Muslims
And what is it you'd really like to demand?
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“More” link isn’t a link...
Fixed, thanks.
'Mika Brzezinski'? Wouldn't be related to Jimmy Carter's ace policy guy Zebignew, would she?
Daughter.
Did you catch Scarborough's claim that 10% of American physicians are Muslim? Santorum just let it pass. What 'report' did he read that made such a claim, which is on its face, if you know just a little about the demographics, patently ludicrous?
I did a little research. There is no such report. What is there? A Muslim website that makes the claim, without any facts to back it up: http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/myjumla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1440:Muslim%20Doctors%20Abundant,%20But%20Muslim%20Hospitals%20Non-Existent&Itemid=17
So this is the kind of source Joe Scarborough is relying on for his 'data.'
Here's the long response I made to that site, which certainly won't get through their moderators:
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The 'analysis' of the AMA figures is laughable--no, correct that--it'd have to improve quite a bit to make it up to 'laughable.'
Forget that your 7000 Pakistani American physicians include, by your own admission, the retired, so they cannot be counted in evaluating the AMA figure. I'll give you the 7000.
And let's even assume, as you do, that the African-American physician population is religiously identical to the broader African-American population (which is almost certainly not a reasonable assumption, given the large numbers of African-American Muslims who came to the faith while in prison--not a lot of former felons become physicians), and count those 2000 as well.
That gives you 9000, or about 1% of the AMA total. Not 10%. 1%.
Where do you propose the other 81,000 needed to get you to 10% are coming from? Indian American doctors? Only 10% of Indian Americans are Muslims, per these Pew data (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/30/5-facts-about-indian-americans/), and the same research gives us only about 3 million total Indian Americans. So just to give your laughable claim every chance we can, let's assume something else that certainly isn't true, i.e., that ALL the remaining Asian physicians are Indians--yes, we'll assume there are no Chinese American doctors, no Japanese American doctors, assume they're ALL Indians.
That gives 106,000 after we take out your 7000 Pakistanis. 10% of that figure would be 11,000. So that gets you to a total of 20,000 Muslim American physicians, which is about 2% of the total.
You're still about 70,000 shy if you want to reasonably claim 10%.
Where are they?
I think it's patently clear that you're just making s#%t up as you go along.
This is unfortunately the kind of dismal, dishonest argumentative logic we have come to expect from the Muslim American community--e.g., the constant mantra of 'ISIS is not Islamic' as though simply repeating it over and over will make it true.
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