claim: "just 9 percent of muslims in pakistan view isis favorably. unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. and that’s just one country."
author: newt gingrich
evidence_1: oct 31, 2014 ... since we began polling the turkish people in 2002, shortly after the 9/11 attacks,  never have more than three-in-ten said they have a favorable view of the u.s. ...  turks even dislike saudi arabia (53% unfavorable and, notably, the highest  favorability percentage (26%) among all countries we asked about).
evidence_2: sep 4, 2014 ... a new, widely-covered poll shows that a full 16% of french people have positive  attitudes toward isis. ... another poll from that year showed that 45% of british  muslims said that 9/11 was an american/israeli conspiracy; that poll showed that  one-quarter of british ... just 30% said al qaeda was responsible.
evidence_3: counter-terrorism, writes: 'is [isis] captivates these young people, not only by ...  2 boaz ganor, 'four questions on isis: a “trend” analysis of the islamic state',  perspectives on terrorism 9: 3, june. 2015, pp. .... 14 in recent years, various  polls have consistently found the percentage of respondents who support making .
evidence_4: dec 9, 2016 ... only 13 percent were madrassa-trained and most of them come from what i call  the southeast asian sample, the jemaah islamiyya (ji). ..... the full data from the  9/11 question show that, in addition to the 13.5 percent, there is another 23.1  percent of respondents--300 million muslims--who told pollsters the ...
evidence_5: nov 13, 2017 ... the taliban now control or contest approximately one-third of afghanistan's  population, meaning 10 million people—as many as isis controlled at its height  .... mainstream view of islam, but even if its appeal is limited to just 1 percent of  the world's 1.8 billion muslims, that is 18 million potential sympathizers.