Survey of Muslims
Topline results
CONFIDENTIAL
Q.
Recently, four school girls from London travelled to Syria to join Islamic State. They are
believed to have been recruited to become “jihadi brides”. Can you understand why
school girls like these would be attracted to become jihadi brides?
Base: All respondents (Muslims survey: 1,081; Control group survey: 1,008)
Muslims survey
Yes
No
Don’t know
Q.
%
26
73
2
If you thought that someone who is close to you was getting involved with people who
support terrorism in Syria, would you…
Base: All respondents (Muslims survey: 1,081; Control group survey: 1,008)
Talk to the person directly about it
to dissuade them
Look for help
Report it to the police
Let the person deal with it
themselves – I wouldn’t get
involved
I don’t think someone close to me
would get involved with people who
support terrorism
Don’t know
Q.
%
25
60
15
Control group
survey
Muslims survey
Control group
survey
%
%
46
29
37
34
16
30
9
3
27
57
10
*
Who else would you talk to about it?
Base: All who would talk to someone else about it if they thought that someone they knew was
getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria (Muslims survey: 403; Control group
survey: 164)
Muslims survey
A member of their family
A member of my family
A friend
An imam/sheik
Community organisation
A website/the internet
Other
Don’t know
%
46
43
37
23
15
3
2
5
Control group
survey
%
77
70
65
30
41
20
19
4
26
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