Most young Arabs against ISIS

I hate to be that guy, but...

Sadly your post reflects the accurate reality of the level of support they have in the ME/NA, and shows the flip-side of such polls such as in the OP; polls can almost always be twisted to support any agenda. On first glance the poll seems to show an overwhelming disapproval of the IS, but upon deeper inspection the reality is much different.

Arab doesn't mean Muslim, 3500 isn't a very large number from which to make generalizations on Muslim opinion, being against ISIS doesn't mean that they aren't in favor of some other Islamic group like Boko haram, it also doesn't mean they don't support violence or slavery or rape or any of the other wonderful things many Muslims believe Islam calls them to do.............. I could go on.

This is clearly just completely bias propaganda, the data and presentation, worse still is that it's completely transparent. A person can see right through it at a moments glance, why post it as if it some sort of accolade for the Muslim community?

Also, rape isn't acceptable in Islam

here people are criticising the methodology and say it doesn't matter because at the end of the day if they follow Islam they may as well be supporting ISIS

Do you have Islamic authority for the proposition that rape is never permissible in any circumstances (in Islam)?

Does Islam agree that sex with children below a certain age always constitutes rape, as they are unable to give consent?

What does Islam say about sex with female slaves (captured from war)?

Poll showing young Muslims hold more extreme views than parents-everyone jumps to talk about how young Muslims have an integration problem,are radicalised and will grow into terrorists

Poll showing majority of young Arabs(vast majority of whom will be Muslim) are against ISIS- here people are criticising the methodology and say it doesn't matter because at the end of the day if they follow Islam they may as well be supporting ISIS, and they may 'favour other terrorist groups like Boko haram and Al Qaeda', or focus on the 13% who say they might support IS if they were less violent.

It's quite clear to see how many people are prejudiced against Muslims,and will always come to conclusions that support their existing prejudice. Even when someone points out that the vast majority of young Arabs are against IS, people would rather point out nonsensical things like how not all Arabs are Muslims(no ****, but 90% are), or talk about how perhaps they still support other terrorist groups


So much bs here

It's nice to see you at the thread, I assume you wanted to get inb4 the considerate and reasoned comments?

The title of the article could be rephrased as

More than 1/5 of young arabs support the Islamic state.

Still shocking.

Also... 19% of people could see themselves supporting ISIS in the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman). I would say that's quite a high percentage

Actually, that's a point. It says 80% ruled out the possibility of joining ISIS, meaning 20% would consider it. That's around the same percentage of the voting-age population of the UK voted for the Labour Party lol! That's not even taking account that around 10% of Arabs aren't even Muslim so the percentage of young Muslim Arabs who would consider joining ISIS is - at least according to this study - likely higher than the proportion of Labour voters (the second most popular political party, of course) among the British voting-age population.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

http://www.idea.int/vt/countryview.cfm?id=77

Damn, OP, you really showed us

This. Polls, no matter how reliable those who conduct claim they are, are majorly misrepresentative. there's a reason why the media dont report on this, its because they are simply not reliable unless you're Fox news, and even they know better.

You missed out the bit where it says "If they were not so violent".

Unlikely, but if for example the IRA had renounced violence, it was always the case that support for Sinn Fein would rise and indeed it did when they did.

You're right. ISIS would be such a humane, progressive and tolerant organisation if they were just a little less violent.

LMAO, Fox are always displaying polls that appear to support whatever right wing drivel they happen to be supporting on that particular day.

The reason for media silence on this is the usual one, that anything not supporting the right wing agenda of the overwhelmingly dominant right wing oligarchs that control nearly all of the published media is simply ignored.

Don't put words in my mouth. You know perfectly well I was referencing the phrase used in the poll, not something I dreamed up. Clearly it's ridiculously unlikely that IS are suddenly going to go all benign on us, so it's a pipe dream, but the question in the poll was phrased that way.