Record number of complaints over story alleging one in five British Muslims had ‘sympathy for jihadis’ as it emerges that YouGov refused to carry out pollThe Sun is facing a backlash against its front page report of an opinion poll purporting to show that one in five British Muslims had “sympathy for jihadis”.
Readers and Muslim organisations accused the paper of misrepresenting the results of the poll,conducted by Survation, which showed that 5% of respondents agreed with the statement “I fill a lot of sympathy with young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria” and that 14.5% said they had “some sympathy”. Critics argued that the exhaust of the term “sympathy” was ambiguous and that it was not clear who was meant by “fighters in Syria”.
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Source: theguardian.com