One in seven young Brits have ‘warm feelings’ towards ISIS: poll

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One in seven young adults in the UK have “warm feelings” towards the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, a poll quoted by London-based newspaper The Times reported on Friday.

The pro-extremist leanings suggested by the poll - particularly among under-25-year-olds – are due to anti-political sentiments and an admiration for the bravado shown by the fighters, academics quoted by the daily said.

The poll, which asked 2,000 adults to rank several nations and extremist groups on a scale of one to ten, is the most thorough survey undertaken yet on ISIS’s impact in the UK, according to The Times.

In addition to what experts believe are a core of Islamists answering favorably, the poll likely shows the feelings of many non-Muslims who disapprove of the British government.

The apparent support of ISIS among Britain’s young adults can be put down to three reasons: ignorance of foreign affairs, distrust of mainstream media, and a feeling of rebellion against “the establishment,” Marat Shterin, senior lecturer in sociology of religion at King’s College London told The Times.

The poll “does go some way toward explaining why we have actually got five British citizens going away looking for jihad every week and we have got at least 500 over there already,” said Clive Field, director of the British Religion in Numbers project at the University of Manchester.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...its-have-warm-feelings-towards-ISIS-poll.html


British Muslims, is this true or highly exgaratted? Looks like another campaign to demonize Muslims in the west.

 

[C130]

to all Western ISIS lovers
ISIS is a paradise.
please get on a plane and fly to Turkey
rip up your passport
cross into Syria and never come back

 

[AbidM]

2000 isn't a large enough sample.

By assumption, I'm assuming the did the survey in London,

London does not represent the whole of the UK or all British people.

Every news company has thier own agenda, be it left or be it right, time is abit of the latter include the times newspaper.

I'm curious as to where they questioned people from and what question the posed, if they went to tower hamlets and bethnal green -.-

Also I agree that there is a struggle for the youth, who want to over throw david cameron, because he's a D***.

 

[Schutz]

Yeah, a tiny sample in an area which probably had people from "backgrounds" where they are more likely to by sympathetic towards Islamic fighters. I cant say I feel hugely differently towards ISIS as I do any other people from a religious establishment, sure I want to see all of ISIS destroyed preferably barbarically and in ways that would destroy their notions of paradise, such as being buried with a pigs carcass but at the same time one group killing another in the middle east isnt something thats going to worry me to much unless they invaded over here which is as likely as Peru becoming a superpower. War in the middle east, the only constant of humanity for the past 5000 years.

 

[narcon]

2000 isn't a large enough sample.

By assumption, I'm assuming the did the survey in London,

London does not represent the whole of the UK or all British people.

Every news company has thier own agenda, be it left or be it right, time is abit of the latter include the times newspaper.

I'm curious as to where they questioned people from and what question the posed, if they went to tower hamlets and bethnal green -.-

Also I agree that there is a struggle for the youth, who want to over throw david cameron, because he's a D***.

UK warns Britons to be vigilant abroad as ISIS threat grows — RT UK

 

[Fukuoka]

Bomb JEW NATO terror organization

 

[CNwansui]

to all Western ISIS lovers
ISIS is a paradise.
please get on a plane and fly to Turkey
rip up your passport
cross into Syria and never come back

yes that sounds a great idea
they will make contributions to the entire planet by blowing themselves up