Steven Emerson, Executive Director February 25, 2015 Articles by IPT |  IPT in the News |  IPT Blog |  Profiles |  Multimedia |  Donate |  Contact Us A Quarter of British Muslims Sympathize with Paris Attack Terrorists by IPT News  •  Feb 25, 2015 at 3:58 pm http://www.investigativeproject.org/4788/a-quarter-of-british-muslims-sympathize-with Print Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. 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. Related Topics: IPT News, Islamist extremism, British Muslims, Charlie Hebdo, BBC poll, Maajid Nawaz, Pew poll The IPT accepts no funding from outside the United States, or from any governmental agency or political or religious institutions. Your support of The Investigative Project on Terrorism is critical in winning a battle we cannot afford to lose. All donations are tax-deductible. Click here to donate online. The Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation is a recognized 501(c)3 organization.   To subscribe: http://www.investigativeproject.org/list_subscribe.php The Investigative Project on Terrorism 202-363-8602 - main 202-966-5191 - fax