2024-04-09 10:18:31
The survey was commissioned by the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a counter-extremism think tank. This is the largest survey of its kind since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
The Telegraph reports this.
HJS chief executive Alan Mendoza said the results show “years of failures in counter-extremism policy”. Thus, the study showed the following:
- 46% of British Muslims identify with Hamas;
- only 25% do not believe Hamas committed the October 7 atrocities, meaning only one in four Muslims believe Hamas was responsible for the massacre;
- 32% expressed a desire for Sharia law to be introduced in the UK;
- 46% of Muslims believe that Jews have too much influence in the British government;
- 41% of Muslims say Jews control the media;
- 52% of British Muslims want to make it illegal to display images of the Prophet Muhammad.
“What’s probably going wrong is the reluctance to fight this kind of extremism for fear of being called Islamophobes or racists. There’s a reluctance to shout about it in the same way that people are very happy to shout about far-right extremism,” he said. Mendoza.
Fiyaz Mughal, founder of the interfaith groups Tell Mama, Faith Matters and Muslims Against Antisemitism, said the results were “shocking, but not shocking.”
“Hamas is an Islamist extremist and terrorist group that has terrorized Gazans, Israelis and liberals within society for decades. The perception that Hamas did not commit mass murder and rape in Israel is terrible because it demonstrates a closed mentality to anything that comes from Israel “, he noted.
Mughal said the survey results point to efforts to combat anti-Semitic stereotypes that still circulate among his fellow believers. He believes the government should provide better guidance to teachers, schools and educational institutions.
An earlier poll showed that American Jews approved of the IDF offensive on Rafah.
Kursor also reported on an anti-Semitic scandal in Great Britain, where nurses abused an Orthodox Jewish child.