One in seven young British adults has "warm feeling" towards the jihadi group Islamic State, according to a poll by Populus. It found that one tenth of Londoners and one in 12 Scots view ISIS favourably while sympathy for the militant group reaches its highest level among the under-25s. VoR's Brendan Cole spoke to Mustafa Field, the director of the Faiths Forum for London.
Around 2,000 people were asked to rank a number of terrorist organisations on a scale from one to ten - where ten showed maximum sympathy.
The populus poll found that 14 percent of under-25s and 12 percent of 25 to 34-year-olds gave Islamic State a score of between six and ten.
Mustafa Field said: “There’s a rising number of people who feel the political establishment doesn’t represent them. They don’t feel that what’s taking place – decisions made by parliament – isn’t working towards their interests.
“People are struggling. And particularly young people are not optimistic about their future. There’s a real need to start addressing this issue and making young people feel more part of the civic process”. [The Voice of Russia] Read more
