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WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis

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BBC

News Commentary, Science, Mathematics, News

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A front page article in a British tabloid claimed that one in five British Muslims have sympathy for jihadis. Ruth Alexander investigates whether this is correct, and asks which countries have the most support for Islamic State fighters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the short edition of more or less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

0:05.6

Thank you for downloading from the BBC.

0:08.5

For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com

0:14.4

slash podcasts.

0:18.1

Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Ruth Alexander.

0:24.2

The UK's most popular newspaper, The Sun, has run an exclusive front-page story about Muslim attitudes to jihadis.

0:31.9

One in five Brit Muslims' sympathy for jihadis.

0:36.7

It was illustrated with a picture of Mohammed Mwazi, a British man better known as Jihadi John,

0:42.3

who became infamous for killing hostages while fighting with the so-called Islamic State in Syria.

0:47.9

The story was based on a poll commissioned by the paper.

0:51.2

It prompted angry responses online, like this one on Facebook by a college lecturer called Riaz Khan from Lester in the paper. It prompted angry responses online, like this one on Facebook by a college lecturer

0:56.1

called Riaz Khan from Lester in the UK. Are you nuts? So you're telling me I've got six members in

1:01.8

my family, my brother has six members in his family, and my other brother has six members in his family.

1:06.5

You're telling me, each one of us has an extremist in our family. So you're telling me there's three extremists in my extended family?

1:13.2

Where'd you get your facts from, mate? You're completely wrong.

1:16.0

You know what you've just done? You've opened the floodgates.

1:19.0

And the sarcastic hashtag one in five Muslims took off on Twitter.

1:23.2

One in five Muslims sleep with their beard on.

1:25.6

One in five Muslims are lucky enough to have a red squiggly line under their name in Microsoft Word.

1:31.3

One in five Muslims use, Inshallah to politely avoid committing to any plan.

1:36.3

And it works. Want to get coffee sometime? Sure, yeah, inshallah.

1:41.3

One in five Muslims force their pets to wear modest Islamic clothing.

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