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Steven Emerson,
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February 25, 2015
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Quarter of British Muslims Sympathize with Paris Attack Terrorists
by IPT News • Feb 25, 2015 at
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More than a quarter of British Muslims sympathize with the terrorists
who committed the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris last month,
according to a new ComRes poll conducted for the BBC. These findings indicate that a
substantial minority of Muslims in Britain approve of murder against
individuals deemed to have insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
Roughly 27 percent of the respondents said that they have "some
sympathy for the motives behind the attacks" while 32 percent said
that they were not surprised by the terrorist attacks.
While 68 percent of British Muslims believe that such attacks are
"never" justified, 24 percent disagreed. Moreover, 11 percent
said that magazines which publish pictures of the prophet "deserve to be attacked."
In January, radical Islamist terrorists killed 17 people in shooting attacks at the satirical
weekly paper Charlie Hebdo and at a kosher supermarket in Paris.
In a column, former radical Islamist Maajid Nawaz called
the survey results "profoundly disconcerting. But they are far from
surprising."
They are the result of separate educational programs for British Muslims
along with an overall insular existence, he writes. "Disintegration
from British society creates a breeding ground for preaching of religious
hatred."
The problem is worsened when the rest of society avoids debating the
challenges posed by Islamist ideology, Nawaz writes.
And it is not a problem limited to Europe. A 2007 Pew poll found that 26 percent of Muslim Americans
under age 30 found suicide bombings could be justifiable.
Click here to see the full BBC polling results.
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