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One in seven young “Britons” has “warm feelings” for the Islamic State

Oct 31, 2014 10:35 pm By Robert Spencer

IslamicStateMarchThese young “Britons,” if they have “warm feelings” toward the Islamic State, don’t have any allegiance to the British state, and are likely in the future to try to make Britain over to be more like the Islamic State. They may not have to work very hard at that, however — the current British government is already doing all it can to smooth their path.

“One in seven young Britons has sympathy with Isis cause,” by Oliver Moody, the Times, October 30, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

One in seven young British adults has “warm feelings” towards Islamic State, according to a poll.

Isis is riding a surge of “anti-politics” sentiment among disaffected under-35s who admire the jihadists’ courage, academics warn.

A tenth of Londoners and one in 12 Scots view Islamic State (Isis) favourably, but sympathy for the militant group reaches its highest levels among the under-25s, the Populus survey found.

In the first rigorous poll to test the UK’s feelings about Isis, 2,000 adults were asked to rank several countries and terrorist organisations on a scale of one to ten…

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  1. mortimer says

    Oct 31, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    It is very disturbing that so many young Britons admire the psychopaths of ISIS.

    ISIS observes no law besides opportunism.

    • Jayell says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 5:21 am

      Hello Mortimer. You’re American? How would you define a ‘young Briton’? Have you been influenced by the PC, multi-culti garbage in the UK press? Here’s a hint to the right answer. I’m from the UK, born and bred (family tree goes back centuries), but I would NEVER NEVER again call myself a ‘Briton’. I’m ENGLISH. 99.99% of English people would NEVER EVEN DREAM of supporting ISIS, just like 99.99% of English people never supported the German Nazi Party or even Oswald Moseley’s crew. The ‘United Kingdom’, I’m afraid, is just about as chemically ‘united’ as a barrel of water with a flotsam middle-eastern-inspired junk oil that’s been split on top.

      • MikeR says

        Nov 1, 2014 at 8:02 am

        That is very interesting. Can you give us a bit more detail about your last sentence?

      • pumbar says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 12:34 am

        That’s not strictly true; the population of the British isles has been essentially homogenous, genetically, up to the 1950s according to the human genome project.

      • Jayell says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 3:12 am

        Replies to MikeR & Plumbar. The ‘barrel of water + oil’ analogy is pretty well exactly what it says and shouldn’t need explaining if you’ve observed the physical reaction between oil & water. Now look at the population trends in UK cities like London, Leicester, Bradford, to name just three, and you see a parallel phenomenon. Best to ignore the ‘explanations’ of the cloud-cuckoo-land social engineers and listen to the rumblings at grass roots level to understand the unhappy truth. And the Middle eastern’ bit? Now who could name a middle-eastern ideological import that’s been increasingly rearing its head in the UK during the last 40-50 years? I take Pumbar’s point entirely. But we’re not in the 1950’s any more. If my brand-name has been legally taken by suppliers of products that don’t match my quality specification and that I would consider spurious , then I have no choice but to redeem my credibility by marketing myself under a different but genuine brand name that they would have no right to usurp. So I would no longer have to suffer the indignity of being bracketed with ‘British terrorists ‘ or (even worse) ‘British jihadists’. ‘English terrorists’ and ‘English jihadists’ are so obviously absurd oxymorons that no one in their right mind would give them any credence.
        ‘

        • pumbar says

          Nov 4, 2014 at 1:02 am

          I agree. I was merely pointing out that there’s no real genetic difference between the English, Scots and Welsh. I probably should’ve explained that better but brevity and levity get the better of me.

    • Shane says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 10:39 am

      Of course, most of these young Brits are Muslims, which is a huge problem for the U.K. Deport any Muslim who supports ISIS or Al Qaeda.

      • SpiritOf1683 says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 5:04 am

        A figure of one in seven youngsters means that there has to be non-Muslim youngsters amongst that depressing figure. That says a lot about the future of Britain when 14% or so of its youngsters see murderous cutthroats like ISIS who chop off heads in a positive light. They have become a blight on a country which has historically been well known for facing up to evil and triumphing over it, but now we have a core which openly sides with it. If anyone is seen siding wioth ISIS, they should get the Singapore treatment of stinging lashes to the backside. Heaven help us if they had been around 75 years ago.

    • Alissa says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 11:11 pm

      Clearly, the Britons of today are not the same as the Britons that built an empire.

      • Jayell says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 3:22 am

        Oh dear , oh dear, how true. The term ‘Briton’ has no real significance any more other than a spurious umbrella term for just about anything.

  2. citycat says

    Oct 31, 2014 at 11:13 pm

    Because the muslim kids are on a mission with agenda, it ups their street confidence and thus they are more persuasive to the native infidels.
    Truth must out

  3. Mirren10 says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 1:12 am

    They are not ‘Britons’, ‘Scots’, or ‘Londoners’.

    They are mohammedans, who owe no allegiance to anything other than the ummah.

    • Alissa says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 11:18 pm

      Well those Britons, Scots, and Londoners better rise up and take back their country if it’s not too late already. Avoiding anarchy might not be possible at this point. So disturbing that our fathers and grandfathers fought world wars to protect out freedoms and our generation is just handing it all over to these morons without a fight.

  4. Salah says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 1:17 am

    If they have “warm feelings” toward the Islamic State it’s because they have “cold feelings” toward their own Judeo-Christian values.
    Darkness is powerless, it doesn’t even exist, darkness is simply the absence of Light.

    • RonW says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 1:55 am

      Actually darkness is not powerless. Even in your metaphor, darkness can kill you if you walk off a cliff…

    • forthfaran says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 11:25 am

      I can assure you that the average indigenous English ,Scottish ,Welsh ,N.Ireland youngster has absolutely no sympathy for ISIS,most have little or no sympathy for Islam in any shape or form. foreigners don’t always realize that the British Isles are composed of 4 Nations,English,Welsh. Scottish and Irish (Northern). Being British is a legal term that merely denotes that one lives in the United Kingdom of Britain and N. Ireland and has been given citizenship of the Kingdom. The English have different racial and cultural heritage to the Scots ,welsh and Irish,being mainly Anglo Saxon of Germanic origin;the rest are Celts. Ask a Scotsman if he is the same as an Englishman and he could well turn violent. The Immigrants into the British Isles hold British passports and are British . I consider myself English and do not ever intend to describe myself as British,particularly after nearly half the Scottish population made it clear that they want nothing to do with the English;the Welsh are much the same. The N.Irish are probably most loyal to the concept of being British. politicians would love to destroy the Nationalities ,especially the English as it will make it easier for the people to be absorbed by the E.U super state. A large proportion of Muslim immigrants are quite possibly more loyal to Islam than Britain and seek to impose an Islamic state on Britain; if left to our spineless politicians they probably will succeed. There is no such problem with Hindus ,Sikhs or other Asian immigrants or European immigrants. Because of political correctness politicians lump all Asians together;this is grossly unfair to the other groups mentioned.

  5. KeepItSimple says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 1:51 am

    Christians have stopped reading the Bible just when Muslims are starting to read the Koran. We need to improve ourselves if we are to be effective in convincing our children that Christianity is indeed the opposite of Islam.

    • steven kirby says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 5:49 am

      to be brainwashed by another load of Abrahamic zeitgeist wholly-baloney instead?

      • forthfaran says

        Nov 1, 2014 at 11:28 am

        It is because atheists like yourself have created and encouraged a spiritual vacuum in this country that ideologies such as Islam have found it relatively easy to fill the empty space. When Islam takes over,if you are still living then ,you will beg for the return of gentle,humane,loving ,democratic Christianity.

        • Alissa says

          Nov 1, 2014 at 11:44 pm

          Oh Forthforam, I love you. That was so well said. I’m sure that Jesus is smiling. Atheists create a vacuum not just for Islam ideology to fill but for the multitudes of PC adherents not to mention the thousands of hair brain social, political, educational ideologies that have come, done their damage and gone over the years, resulting in what we have now…the appalling behaviour of celebrities; gutless inaction of politicians all over the western world; ridiculous curriculum content taught to our children every day. To a large extent people get the government and society they deserve.

        • Alissa says

          Nov 1, 2014 at 11:46 pm

          Make that “oh forthfaran, I love you.” lol sorry about that.

  6. BC says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 4:58 am

    Why is there no evidence of the ethnicity of those polled or where they were found, nor a list of the countries and ‘organisations’ they were asked to rank?

    • b says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 8:11 am

      Good point. This survey is not valid unless we know how many of those polled are Muslim or lunatic Left

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 1:05 am

        Exactly.

        But: if they did a properly-randomised survey of “young people” generally – that is, intended to give an indication of attitudes among *all* people in a certain age bracket within the UK – then why turn it around and state hat this result allows us to deduce that *at least* one in seven young people in the UK is …Muslim?

        Me, I am assuming that anyone who is prepared to tell a surveyor that they have warm feelings for Islamic State, has got to be a Muslim.

        That doesn’t mean that 6 out of 7 young people in the UK is *not* Muslim, it just means that *at least* one in 7 young people in the UK is Muslim.

        See what I’m getting at?

  7. Coolio says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 5:14 am

    At this rate, civil war looms. The only chance the British people have is to rise up like the barely-reported 33 million people of Egypt who deposed the Moslem Brotherhood next May, through or throughout the ballot box, in a massive uprising of resistance and non-cooperation with dhimmi state agents and agencies. Fighting external Islamicists will not be possible until the tratorous enemy within has been overcome.

    LibLabCon have become the UK wing of the Moslem Brotherhood, the political wing of Hammas, al Qaida, Islamic State, Boko Boko, CAIR… and those culturally relative quislings deserve the Tower.

  8. abad says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    The youths in question are NOT Britons and are NOT British.

    They are MUSLIMS.

    No such thing as a British Muslim.

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