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Originally Posted by MTVN
Well in the interests of clarity the statement was "I have some sympathy for the motives behind the Charlie Hebdo attack" and 27% agreed out of a sample size of 1,000. That is different to agreeing with the attack and those 1,000 are not necessarily representative. Yes it is still worrying, but no one has said that all Muslims are anti-terrorist as you said above, that is self-evidently wrong.
That poll also found that 95% of those asked felt a loyalty to Britain. Do you not think that is welcome?
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Also, I think it would depend on how you interpret the question, "Do you have some sympathy behind the
motives" a Muslim person could take to mean, that they agree that the cartoons were offensive to them but not necessarily mean they agree with the action of "revenge" carried out.
I think if the question was more like "Do you agree that the Charlie Hebdo attack was not an extreme reaction to the cartoon" or something like that the number may have been lower