Saturday, July 23, 2005

This is Terrifying

First, some good news:

The group portrait of British Muslims painted by YouGov's survey for The Daily Telegraph is at once reassuring and disturbing, in some ways even alarming.

The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from modern British society and some are prepared to justify terrorist acts.

The divisions within the Muslim community go deep. Muslims are divided over the morality of the London bombings, over the extent of their loyalty to this country and over how Muslims should respond to recent events.

Most Muslims are evidently moderate and law-abiding but by no means all are.

YouGov sought to gauge the character of the Muslim community's response to the events of July 7. As the figures in the chart show, 88 per cent of British Muslims clearly have no intention of trying to justify the bus and Tube murders.

Now, the bad news:

However, six per cent insist that the bombings were, on the contrary, fully justified.

Now, the very bad news:

Six per cent may seem a small proportion but in absolute numbers it amounts to about 100,000 individuals who, if not prepared to carry out terrorist acts, are ready to support those who do.

Do these attitudes reflect those of American Muslims?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

TERRORISTS= MURDERERS
SYMPATHIZERS OF TERRORISTS = ENABLERS
SUPPORTERS OF TERRORISTS = ACCOMPLICES!