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U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles

Your estimate of total terrorists on Earth

  • between 100,000 and 250,000

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  • half a million to 750,000

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U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles - CNN.com

Washington (CNN)The coalition fighting ISIS has killed more than 6,000 fighters, including half of the top command of the terror group, U.S. diplomatic officials said Thursday.

U.S. intelligence estimates that ISIS has a total force of somewhere between 9,000 to 18,000 fighters. However, it is also believed the group can draw on thousands of other fighters whose loyalty shifts and could muster a force upwards of 31,000 total.


In your humble opinion, how many terrorists (Islamic Extremists) are there in the world? Total.

How many could be "mustered up" and drawn into some kind of battle, fight, or violent act including suicide bombing and such?

This is strictly asking for your opinion. Could be based on stuff you've read, or could be pulled from some dark recess of your inner fear.

What would you estimate?
 
The problem is that lets say there are 100,000. If you somehow killed all them at one time, you would inspire another 200,000 to take their place.
 
U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles - CNN.com






In your humble opinion, how many terrorists (Islamic Extremists) are there in the world? Total.

How many could be "mustered up" and drawn into some kind of battle, fight, or violent act including suicide bombing and such?

This is strictly asking for your opinion. Could be based on stuff you've read, or could be pulled from some dark recess of your inner fear.

What would you estimate?

It totally depends on whom you feel to fit the definition. Are Hamas fighters all terrorists although they report to a near government but terrorist organization? What about the Iranian guardsmen deployed to assist the terrorists here and there?
 
1.7 billion that believe in a regressive medieval ideology.
 
It totally depends on whom you feel to fit the definition. Are Hamas fighters all terrorists although they report to a near government but terrorist organization? What about the Iranian guardsmen deployed to assist the terrorists here and there?

Yup. I asked for your opinion. Your guess. Based on whatever criteria you deemed reasonable. What's the number?
 
Anyone who even ventures a guess, is talking out their ass. There is no way to know. And anyone who thinks 200,000 terrorists are created by killing 100,000 is also talking out their ass. How many is irrelevant anyway, what I want to know is why our enemies like Russia think it's good to sit on the sidelines while women and children are being killed.
 
Voted "Other - please explain"

The issue here is intention to or actively engaging in terrorism does not totally encompass the problem. It sounds like it does, but we also have to consider those out there that by silence or some other passive support allow these groups to flourish. It makes this effort a little dubious to suggest what we think the total number of terrorists are, as even at a high level they will have a network or support, from family to businesses to other means.

I do not see what it proves on trying to nail down the actual number of terrorists, they are not out there in a vacuum.
 
Voted "Other - please explain"

The issue here is intention to or actively engaging in terrorism does not totally encompass the problem. It sounds like it does, but we also have to consider those out there that by silence or some other passive support allow these groups to flourish. It makes this effort a little dubious to suggest what we think the total number of terrorists are, as even at a high level they will have a network or support, from family to businesses to other means.

I do not see what it proves on trying to nail down the actual number of terrorists, they are not out there in a vacuum.

I'm not trying to "prove" anything.

It's a simple question. It's also a given that it's just an estimate as well as opinion.

I'm not going to take anyone to court and ask them to swear on a bible or anything.

What's your GUESS, your ESTIMATE?

Based on your post, I'd have to say you'd put it at "over a million".
 
U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles - CNN.com






In your humble opinion, how many terrorists (Islamic Extremists) are there in the world? Total.

How many could be "mustered up" and drawn into some kind of battle, fight, or violent act including suicide bombing and such?

This is strictly asking for your opinion. Could be based on stuff you've read, or could be pulled from some dark recess of your inner fear.

What would you estimate?

Back before Isis/Isil I think I recall hearing something like 90% of Muslims reject terrorism. That sounds great and it is great but at the same time, that means 10% of 1.6 billion (with a b) people do not reject terrorism. Math was never my strong subject I think that's 1.6 million who embrace terrorism, making them the largest standing military on earth, albeit unorganized. Another thing to consider: the survey was conducted in areas of the world free and peaceful enough to carry out surveys. Many Muslims live in parts of the world where conducting an opinion poll is not possible and those places in particular are more likely to have higher percentages of the pro-terror ideology.
 
U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles - CNN.com






In your humble opinion, how many terrorists (Islamic Extremists) are there in the world? Total.

How many could be "mustered up" and drawn into some kind of battle, fight, or violent act including suicide bombing and such?

This is strictly asking for your opinion. Could be based on stuff you've read, or could be pulled from some dark recess of your inner fear.

What would you estimate?

If just 5% of 1.5 billion Muslims = "only" 75 million (75,000,000) are actively involved in some phase of violent Jihad, that means there are many more terrorists.

https://sites.google.com/site/islam...w-many-muslims-are-there-how-many-are-jihadis
 
Back before Isis/Isil I think I recall hearing something like 90% of Muslims reject terrorism. That sounds great and it is great but at the same time, that means 10% of 1.6 billion (with a b) people do not reject terrorism. Math was never my strong subject I think that's 1.6 million who embrace terrorism, making them the largest standing military on earth, albeit unorganized. Another thing to consider: the survey was conducted in areas of the world free and peaceful enough to carry out surveys. Many Muslims live in parts of the world where conducting an opinion poll is not possible and those places in particular are more likely to have higher percentages of the pro-terror ideology.

That would be 160 million.
 
Yup. I asked for your opinion. Your guess. Based on whatever criteria you deemed reasonable. What's the number?

If you include the types I mentioned ie Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbolah fighters etc, then you are North of a Million.
 
The problem is that lets say there are 100,000. If you somehow killed all them at one time, you would inspire another 200,000 to take their place.

There is no way to prove this one way or another though I agree with the premise. We killed millions of Nazis in WWII. It didn't really "inspire" millions of others to take their place. Though it is arguable that in the long run, many have sympathized and become right wing extremists inspired by the Third Reich's efforts. I mean, it could just as easily be that the West getting involved in a war against a mostly Muslim force inspired other people, but the deaths itself can't only be said to inspire those who are already involved.
 
U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles - CNN.com






In your humble opinion, how many terrorists (Islamic Extremists) are there in the world? Total.

How many could be "mustered up" and drawn into some kind of battle, fight, or violent act including suicide bombing and such?

This is strictly asking for your opinion. Could be based on stuff you've read, or could be pulled from some dark recess of your inner fear.

What would you estimate?

It really doesn't matter. We will NOT defeat ISIS through an air campaign. That's just insane. We need to either have boots on the ground and beat them into submission or we need to just let it go.
 
There is no way to prove this one way or another. We killed millions of Nazis in WWII. It didn't "inspire" millions of others to take their place.

Nazis did not have a religious motivation the psychology motivating the typical Nazi soldier was entirely different than that of the typical Islamic extremist. We do know that despite the fact the Soviets killing at least a million Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan, they were still no closer to pacifying the country after being there nearly 10 years.
 
according to government propoganda, 6k terrorists have been killed. So the number is more likely closer to 500.
 
I think there would be many less if the US had not gotten involved in the Middle East.
 
I think there would be many less if the US had not gotten involved in the Middle East.

And if there were not less, at least they wouldn't be our problem. But we can't. Why? We allow oil to run our economy with limited competition.
 
And if there were not less, at least they wouldn't be our problem. But we can't. Why? We allow oil to run our economy with limited competition.

Gotta love tapping into the fear of the American people.
 
The problem is that lets say there are 100,000. If you somehow killed all them at one time, you would inspire another 200,000 to take their place.

Killing 100,000 terrs, at one time, would be a helluva deterrent to future terrorism.
 
The problem is that lets say there are 100,000. If you somehow killed all them at one time, you would inspire another 200,000 to take their place.

Is that a fantasy you have, or do you have something to back that up?
 
Is that a fantasy you have, or do you have something to back that up?

Total casualties in the Iraq war is estimated at 600,000 with at least 35,000 of them known insurgents. Total number of terrorists / insurgents killed in Afghanistan so far is around 40,000. Do you notice any less terrorists in the world?
 
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