- Overwhelming majorities of Arab teens and young adults now strongly oppose the terrorist group, the survey suggests, with nearly 80 percent ruling out any possibility of supporting the Islamic State, even if it were to renounce its brutal tactics.
A year ago, about 60 percent expressed that view, according to the 16-country survey released Tuesday.
The study's website is super interesting, too. Most of it's covered in the article, but the whole thing is well made, and there are some nice graphs. I like this study. I hope it makes the rounds online. I've been noticing a lot more islamophobia recently, and it'd be nice if some of that were tempered.
Ha the fact that its not 100% is pretty incredible. Let me get this straight, we can a polling organization call around and ask people if they support terrorists and these idiots said yes?!! Who needs NSA spying when you can just call people, ask them if they support terrorism and if they answer yes put them on a watch/no-fly list.
Well I might be reading this incorrectly but it's not that weird if I'm correct in the assumption that they are asking people in Arab countries. It's very easy for us to see them for what they are but we are also not on the recieving end of propaganda or living so close to conflict areas. We also aren't living under dictatorship or any of that stuff. It's like when we wonder how Germans let Hitler gain control and do what he did. It doesn't make sense to us because it's a complex issue which we have a hard time relating too.
Well in the US you might end up on the watch list. In a dictatorship country you might end up with a bullet to the head. I don't think there are many places out side of Somalia and where ISIS is on the same side as the government. Even is Saudi and Turkey its not officially OK to support them.
Weird that anyone would admit support. Its like doing a survey of who is Jewish in Hitlers Germany or asking north Koreans about their support for Kim Jong un. I have no doubt that there are terrorists and terrorist sympathizers our there but that that many are dumb enough to out themselves...