If you are unable to tell me exactly why I should accept the word of a few thousand people as authority for the views on billions of people, then there is nothing further to discuss.
Unlike you and perhaps many others, I have no wish to stir up animosity purely for the sake of seeking validation for my biases. Unlike others, I have no vested interested in using such events to further my own Islamophobic agendas.
I am taking issue with the conclusions drawn from a poll which some people have taken as "evidence". I do not believe it is worth the paper it was written on and I wished to make that clear.
If you have any objections to what I have said, then please make them known to me but I can not stand by and allow gross negative distortions and misrepresentations, the precursor to a feeling of irrational views and hatred, without calling people out on it.
Did you know that more people are killed by a falling coconut than in a shark attack?The phenomenon is referred to as, "
Death by coconut".
Of course it is. It tells us nothing of substance and only serves to ingrain within oneself, a sense of validation, for consumption of a mainly Western orientated audience.
Do they like IS because it has brought some kind of stability from what was previously a corrupt regime? Do they dislike IS because it carries out beheadings? Are they looking at IS favourably because it is seen as taking on the "Great Satan"? Are they disgusted by the fact that IS seems to kill more Muslims than any other group?
To understand why people look upon IS favourably, we need to understand the reasons if we are ever to combat it's popularity and showing me a poll with numbers isn't going to cut mustard.
Yes, we may destroy IS militarily but if we fail to address the reasons for it's creation and growth, then we are simply going to for another go on the merry-go-round, this time with another barbaric group.
The people surveyed in those countries have lived very different lives to us in the West and perhaps even Syria/Iraq and seeing IS how we see them is radically different to their own experiences.
These people probably don't even care about surveys and polls or make decisions based on how something will play out in the public sphere. They make decisions based on their experiences and quantifying those experiences to a simple "Do you view ISIS favourably?" is irrelevant and tells me absolutely nothing so forgive me if I sit this latest episode of whipping up people, through gross distortions, manipulation and misrepresentations to support my Islamophobic agenda out.