UK Muslims consider suicide bombing

[JohnLocke]

UK Muslims consider suicide bombing
Monday, March 15, 2004
The Age
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Just under half of British Muslims questioned in a poll said they might consider becoming suicide bombers if they lived in the Palestinian territories, and more than one in ten said further terrorist attacks on the United States would be justified.
The survey, by the ICM polling firm for the Guardian newspaper, found 80 per cent of British Muslims said Britain and America should not have launched their war on Iraq last year. Ten per cent said the decision to attack was correct, the poll found.
Seventy-three per cent said further terrorist strikes on America by al-Qaeda or similar groups would be unjustified, while 13 per cent said they would be justified, the poll found. The rest said they didn't know.
Pollsters asked those questioned whether they agreed with the statement of MP Jenny Tonge, forced to step down from her post in the Liberal Democratic party after she said she condemned all violence but could imagine becoming a suicide bomber if she had to live like Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Forty-seven per cent of the Muslims polled said they agreed with Tonge and 43 per cent disagreed.
An overall sampling of Britons asked the same question found that 15 per cent said they might consider becoming bombers if they were in Palestinians' shoes and 78 per cent said they would not.
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[wtmusic]

1. Multiple choice

1) Why would so many people want to kill themselves to hurt another people?

a. They are desperate in their fight against oppression.

b. They are fanatical religious zealots.

Since we know Palestinians aren't oppressed, all Palestinians must be fanatical religious zealots.

Thanks for working through that one with me! :eyes:

[JohnLocke]

2. Well gee, those British Muslims are really oppressed!

[legin]

3. So what

:shrug:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Misleading title

It makes people think they declared themselves willing to bomb the UK, when the article actually says "if they lived in the Palestinian territories".

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Well said. eom

[Djinn]

7. EXACTLY

and it'd be nice to see this slur pulled as a misleading title
makes it sound as if there are muslims in the UK strapping on the explosives and about to head off to Buck Pal

[Vladimir]

5. If you look at the question

the respose is not very surprising I think. The question was:

"Do you agree with the following statement: 'she condemned all violence but could imagine becoming a suicide bomber if she had to live like Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza'"

I know many non-muslims who would answer yes to that. It is an indication of exactly how disenfranchised the Muslim/Left-wing communities in Britain feel after the last year, but hardly surprising.

V