Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

What Muslims think

The Sun survey that suggested Muslims sympathise with terrorists was misleading

issue 28 November 2015

Do you have sympathy with young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria? It’s a hard question to answer: perhaps you’d wonder who the ‘fighters’ were. Or whether the ‘young Muslims’ were 14-year-old girls, groomed by fanatics to be jihadi brides. But if you answer ‘yes’, you may be surprised to find yourself described as having ‘sympathy for jihadis’.

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