Survey of Muslims
Topline results
CONFIDENTIAL
As you may remember, in January 2015, two brothers who identified themselves as
belonging to the Islamic Terrorist group Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, broke in to the office
of a French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and killed 11 people. It was claimed that they
did this because the magazine had published cartoons of the Prophet.
Q.
In your opinion, should any publication have the right to publish pictures of the Prophet?
Base: All respondents (Muslims survey: 1,081; Control group survey: 1,008)
Muslims survey
Yes
No
It depends on the nature of the
pictures
Don’t know
Q.
%
4
78
67
20
12
9
5
4
%
And in your opinion, should any publication have the right to publish pictures which
make fun of the Prophet?
Base: All respondents (Muslims survey: 1,081; Control group survey: 1,008)
Muslims survey
Yes
No
It depends on the nature of the
pictures
Don’t know
Q.
Control group
survey
Control group
survey
%
1
87
47
44
8
7
4
3
%
How likely, if at all, do you think it is that there will ever be a similar attack in Britain?
Base: All respondents (Muslims survey: 1,081; Control group survey: 1,008)
Muslims survey
NET: Likely
Very likely
Fairly likely
Neither likely nor unlikely
Fairly unlikely
Very unlikely
NET: Unlikely
Don’t know
%
29
11
18
17
12
15
27
27
Control group
survey
%
75
31
44
11
10
4
14
1
24
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