BBC Poll: 49% of Muslims endorse hate preachers; 11% support Jihad; 27% support Charlie Hebdo execution
Posted on March 1, 2015 by Admin 3 Comments
Note:
Islam in United Kingdom is the second largest religion with results from the United Kingdom Census 2011 giving the UK Muslim population in 2011 as 2,786,635, 4.4% of the total population. The vast majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom live in England: 2,660,116 (5.02% of the population). [Wikipedia]
Figures from the 2011 census show that the Muslim population in the UK has substantially risen between 2001 and 2011 from 1.5 million to almost 3 million. This now takes the proportion of Muslims from 2% of the population to 5%. In some towns, Muslims make up almost 50% of the population, and in large cities like London and Manchester they make up around 14% of the population. [Huffington Post]
Poll of 1,000 Muslims in Britain for BBC Radio 4 Today
•More than two in five (46%) feel that being a Muslim in Britain is difficult due to prejudice against Islam.
•Almost all Muslims living in Britain feel a loyalty to the country (95%). Just 6% say they feel a disloyalty.
•Nine in ten (93%) British Muslims believe that Muslims in Britain should always obey British laws.
•One in four (27%) British Muslims say they have some sympathy for the motives behind the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
•However, two thirds (68%) say acts of violence against those who publish images of the Prophet can never be justified while a quarter (24%) disagree.
•Muslim women are more likely than men to feel unsafe in Britain.
•One in nine (11%) British Muslims feel sympathetic towards people who want to fight against western interests while 85% do not.
•Half (49%) believe Muslim clerics preaching that violence against the west can be justified are out of touch with mainstream Muslim opinion, while 45% disagree.
Date Conducted: 25th February 2015
Client: BBC Radio 4 Today
Methodology: ComRes interviewed 1,000 Muslims living in Britain aged 18+ by telephone between 26th January and 20th February. Data were weighted to be representative of the known population. Sample was drawn from two sources, as outlined below:
1.National Random Digit Dialing (RDD) Surveys: A database collected from national, RDD surveys where respondents identified as being Muslim who were happy to be re-contacted for research.
2.Super Output Areas: RDD sample was drawn based on the Office for National Statistics’ Output Areas – the statistical regions created by the Office for National Statistics that are the lowest geographical level at which census estimates are provided – in order to determine the Middle Layer Super Output Areas that have the highest density and incidence of BME adults (18+).
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