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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2817360" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>Opinion after Paris</p><p></p><p>What Muslims think of Islamic State</p><p>There is far less sympathy for the jihadists than rabble-rousers think</p><p>Nov 25th 2015 </p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/cdn.static_economist.com_sites_default_files_imagecache_full_w6efe6ed8f131bc73a2415a656c0e4618.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>ONE in five British Muslims sympathises with jihadists, claimed a headline in the Sun, a British tabloid. The number referred to a poll, taken in the wake of the attacks in Paris, which in fact suggested that 20% of Muslim respondents felt some or a lot of sympathy for young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria. Critics of what they judged a deliberate misrepresentation of Muslim feelings towards Islamic State (IS) quickly set up a Twitter hashtag, #1in5Muslims, that generated a torrent of tweets attacking the Sun. A typical example: #1in5Muslims have to hear this BS all the time.</p><p></p><p>So what do Muslims around the world really think of IS? The same poll showed that 71% of Muslim Britons have no sympathy for expatriate British fighters, a number not so different from the 77% of other Britons who felt that way in a survey conducted in March by the same polling firm, Survation. Other post-Paris polls of Muslims have yet to appear, but Pew, a research firm that publishes annual reports of attitudes in 10 Muslim-majority countries, concluded last spring that they were overwhelmingly negative towards IS. It found that 99% of Lebanese and 94% of Jordanians, for instance, held very unfavourable views of the group. Even in Saudi Arabia, a country whose Wahhabist creed is seen as a wellspring of jihadism, there is little indulgence: in a face-to-face poll in September sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think-tank, a scant 4% of Saudi respondents expressed any degree of support for the group.</p><p></p><p>Recent IS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and France are unlikely to have boosted the groups popularity among Muslims. Like previous waves of jihadist terror they have provoked a bland chorus of condemnation and denial; government-salaried religious officials from Morocco to Indonesia say the group is a criminal gang and a blight on the Muslim faith. But this time deeper, introspective views are being aired more widely, and not only by secular critics of political Islam.</p><p></p><p>Teachers and preachers and professors declare support for the bombings, and stay in their jobs, and then we wonder why youths go and join [IS], laments a Twitter message from Ali al-Jifri, a popular Sufi leader in Abu Dhabi. Muhammad Habash, an exiled Syrian Islamic scholar, argues on the website All4Syria that IS is not a product of some conspiracy but the outcome of mainstream religious teaching: </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21679152-there-far-less-sympathy-jihadists-rabble-rousers-think-what" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21679152-there-far-less-sympathy-jihadists-rabble-rousers-think-what</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2817360, member: 7629"] Opinion after Paris What Muslims think of Islamic State There is far less sympathy for the jihadists than rabble-rousers think Nov 25th 2015 [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/cdn.static_economist.com_sites_default_files_imagecache_full_w6efe6ed8f131bc73a2415a656c0e4618.jpg[/IMG] ONE in five British Muslims sympathises with jihadists, claimed a headline in the Sun, a British tabloid. The number referred to a poll, taken in the wake of the attacks in Paris, which in fact suggested that 20% of Muslim respondents felt some or a lot of sympathy for young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria. Critics of what they judged a deliberate misrepresentation of Muslim feelings towards Islamic State (IS) quickly set up a Twitter hashtag, #1in5Muslims, that generated a torrent of tweets attacking the Sun. A typical example: #1in5Muslims have to hear this BS all the time. So what do Muslims around the world really think of IS? The same poll showed that 71% of Muslim Britons have no sympathy for expatriate British fighters, a number not so different from the 77% of other Britons who felt that way in a survey conducted in March by the same polling firm, Survation. Other post-Paris polls of Muslims have yet to appear, but Pew, a research firm that publishes annual reports of attitudes in 10 Muslim-majority countries, concluded last spring that they were overwhelmingly negative towards IS. It found that 99% of Lebanese and 94% of Jordanians, for instance, held very unfavourable views of the group. Even in Saudi Arabia, a country whose Wahhabist creed is seen as a wellspring of jihadism, there is little indulgence: in a face-to-face poll in September sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think-tank, a scant 4% of Saudi respondents expressed any degree of support for the group. Recent IS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and France are unlikely to have boosted the groups popularity among Muslims. Like previous waves of jihadist terror they have provoked a bland chorus of condemnation and denial; government-salaried religious officials from Morocco to Indonesia say the group is a criminal gang and a blight on the Muslim faith. But this time deeper, introspective views are being aired more widely, and not only by secular critics of political Islam. Teachers and preachers and professors declare support for the bombings, and stay in their jobs, and then we wonder why youths go and join [IS], laments a Twitter message from Ali al-Jifri, a popular Sufi leader in Abu Dhabi. Muhammad Habash, an exiled Syrian Islamic scholar, argues on the website All4Syria that IS is not a product of some conspiracy but the outcome of mainstream religious teaching: [url]http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21679152-there-far-less-sympathy-jihadists-rabble-rousers-think-what[/url] [/QUOTE]
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