OAN’s Brooke Mallory
5:17pm – Monday, April 8, 2023
A recent survey conducted by polling firm JL Partners and think tank Henry Jackson Society found that almost half of British Muslims say they sympathize with Hamas, while the Palestinian Islamic terrorist organization Only one in four believe they have committed rape and murder. October 7th attack on Israelth.
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poll The survey is the latest and most recent study of Muslims living in the UK, carried out in the six months following Hamas’ massacre of at least 1,200 people in Israel and the kidnapping of hundreds more, many of whom have not yet been released. This is the largest scale survey.
The study, commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society think tank, found that 46% of British Muslims support or sympathize with Hamas, a terrorist organization that supports the destruction of Israel and the West.
Furthermore, only 24% of British Muslims expressed the belief that Hamas committed the murder and rape of October 7th.th In Israel, this opinion was held, while in the UK, 62% of the population held this opinion. Meanwhile, 39% of British Muslims said they did not believe Hamas was involved in atrocities, and 37% said they were unsure.
The survey also found that young, university-educated British Muslims are the least likely to hold Hamas responsible for rapes and murders during terrorist attacks. 40% of people with a college degree and 47% of people ages 18 to 24 denied that Palestinian terrorists did anything wrong.
This is despite mountains of evidence provided by the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli residents who endured the atrocities.
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said the results showed a “longstanding failure of counter-extremism policy”. telegraph paper Exit.
“What’s probably wrong is that people don’t want to engage with this kind of extremism for fear of being labeled as Islamophobic or racist. I’m as reluctant to condemn it as I am to condemn it,” Mendoza said.
“The government needs to find ways to support and strengthen moderate Muslim voices and sideline extremist voices.”
MI5 Director Ken McCallum said in 2020:[right-wing terror] Today, the threat is not on the same scale as Islamic extremist terrorism…quantitatively, Islamic extremist terrorism remains our greatest threat. ” Yet the government has long been accused of spending excessive time and resources focusing on the threat “posed by right-wing extremists.”
But just last month, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared in a speech to his country that the “far right” and Islamic extremists were trying to destroy British democracy. This comes after months of massive pro-Palestinian protests, featuring genocidal and anti-Semitic rhetoric on Britain’s streets, and against the backdrop of a campaign specifically focused on Muslims, far-left George W. -This happened after Galloway won a seat in Congress.
“We recently launched a series of measures to promote social cohesion and counter religious hatred. Our plan is to tackle divisions in communities and ensure democratic freedoms are protected across the country. ” a British government spokesperson said of the poll.
Furthermore, the survey found that 46% of British Muslims and 16% of the general population respectively believe that Jews have “too much power” over the British government. Of those surveyed, 52% thought it should be against the law to display statues of the Prophet Muhammad, and 32% of British Muslims said they supported the enforcement of Sharia law.
Previously, a former religious studies teacher from the small West Yorkshire town of Batley faced threats from Muslims and went into hiding with his family after showing a caricature of Muhammad to students during a class on blasphemy in 2021. was forced to. The act reportedly sparked protests and he was subsequently suspended. BBC.
“He lives far away from the Batley area and has been given a new identity. He is slowly trying to rebuild his life, but it hasn’t been easy.” daily mail.
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