The largest news organization in Canada recently buried a grave statistic revealed in a poll given to Canadian Muslims. cbc News downplayed poll results showing a full 12 percent of Canadian Muslims believe that an alleged terrorist plot to kidnap and behead the prime minister was justified.

Instead, the online cbc News article, titled “Glad to be Canadian, Muslims say,” which published the results of this Environics poll, highlighted that 80 percent of Canada’s 700,000 Muslims are satisfied to live there.

According to the Calgary Sun,cbc News missed the real story. The fact that so many Muslims are happy to live in Canada is no surprise considering how many of Canada’s newest Muslim immigrants come from Afghanistan, where the majority of poor and middle-class Afghans have no running water, heat or electricity. People with virtually any political ideology would tend to be more satisfied in a country with a higher standard of living.

The far more revealing and newsworthy statistic was not even reported in the cbc online article: the percentage of Canadian Muslims who felt a plot to behead Canada’s top leader and blow up the Parliament was justified. Though buried deep in the article was the isolated statement that 73 percent of respondents felt the attacks were not at all justified, no reference was made to the fact that 12 percent—the equivalent of 84,000 Canadian Muslims—said the plot was justified. Even taking the margin of error into consideration leaves a minimum of 49,000 Canadian Muslims who sympathize with the cause of the 18 Muslim men and boys who allegedly plotted to blow up a Canadian symbol of democracy.

Here is yet another example of how the media, out of political correctness and fear of causing offense, paints a picture of extreme Muslims that is different to reality.