For Arab Youth, ISIS Is Middle East’s ‘Biggest Obstacle'

[Rob L 3,811]

Julia Glum 12 hrs ago

Islamic State group grows its presence online and in headlines, its influence among young people is shrinking. At least, that's according to the annual Arab Youth Survey released Tuesday by polling firm Penn Schoen Berland.

Half of respondents named the rise of the extremist organization, also known as ISIS or Daesh, to be the No. 1 obstacle facing the Middle East. More than three-fourths said they were concerned about the group's expansion, and the same amount said they thought ISIS would fail in its quest to establish a caliphate.

"Despite increasing concern, tacit support for the militant group is declining, with nearly four in five (78 percent) rejecting the group outright even if it were to change its tactics," the survey's whitepaper read. "Just 13 percent of young Arabs agree they could see themselves supporting Daesh if it did not use so much violence." Last year, that same statistic was 19 percent.

Young people's opinions on ISIS have been scrutinized over the past two years as the organization has risen in prominence. ISIS fighters have proven to be extremely talented at recruiting youth online, offering Western teens in particular an opportunity to leave behind mundane annoyances to make a difference. "ISIS provides a utopian political project, the so-called caliphate, the centralized Islamic rule," Fawaz Gerges, a London School of Economics professor and Middle East expert, told CNN last year. "ISIS provides these deluded young men and women with an adventurous trip."

Tuesday's survey shows that although most Arabic youth reject ISIS, they can understand why it's popular. Respondents named lack of jobs as the primary reason why young people join ISIS, followed by the belief that their interpretation of Islam was best and religious conflict between the Sunni and Shiite sects, according to the Washington Post.

"Many people in the region may reject Daesh due to its extreme tactics, but the issue remains that the group exploits existing problems. It did not simply invent the problems the responders identified as factors," Hassan Hassan, a fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, said in the report. "Daesh, put another way, is a symptom of a growing disease that needs to be tackled, and not just the disease itself."

The eighth annual survey included 3,500 interviews with people between the ages of 18 and 24. They came from 16 Middle Eastern and African countries, among them Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen. Syria was not included.

Read the results in full here.

[Boiler 45,516]

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34% would inform the police if they thought somebody they knew was getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria

Q: If you thought that someone who is close to you was getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria, would you report it to the police?

4% sympathise with people who take part in suicide bombings

Q: Please tell me tell me whether you sympathise or condemn people who take part in suicide bombing to fight injustice

Net sympathise: 4% (completely sympathise: 1%, sympathise to some extent: 3%)

4% sympathise with people who commit terrorist actions as a form of political protest.

Q: To what extent do you sympathise or condemn with people who commit terrorist acts as a form of political protest?

Net sympathise: 4% (completely sympathise: 0.5: sympathise to some extent: 3.5%)

52% do not believe that homosexuality should be legal in Britain

Q: To what extent you agree or disagree with each one: homosexuality should be legal in Britain?

Net agree 18% (strongly agree 8%, tend to agree 10%)

Net disagree: 52% (strongly disagree: 38%, tend to disagree: 14%)

47% do not believe that it is acceptable for a school teacher to be homosexual

Q: To what extent do you agree or disagree that it is acceptable for a homosexual person to be a teacher in a school?

Net disagree: 47% (strongly disagree: 35%, tend to disagree: 12%)

23% support the introduction of Sharia Law.

Q: To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose there being areas of Britain in which Sharia law is introduced instead of British law?

Net support: 23% (strongly support: 7%, tend to support: 17%)

32% refuse to condemn those who take part in violence against those who mock the Prophet

Q: Please tell me whether you sympathise or condemn people who take part in violence against those who mock the Prophet

Net sympathise: 18% (completely sympathise: 9%, sympathise to some extent: 9%, neither sympathise or condemn: 14%)

39% agree that “wives should always obey their husbands”.

Q: To what extent you agree or disagree that wives should always obey their husbands?

Net agree: 39% (strongly agree: 15%, tend to agree: 24%)

66% completely condemn those people who take part in stoning those who commit adultery.

Q: Please tell me whether you sympathise or condemn people who take part in stoning those who commit adultery.

Net condemn: 79%. (completely condemn: 66%, condemn to some extent: 13%)

Net sympathise: 5% (completely sympathise: 2%, tend to sympathise: 3%)

31% think it's acceptable for a man to have more than one wife

Q: To what extent you agree or disagree [that] it is acceptable for a British Muslim to keep more than one wife?

Net agree: 31% (strongly agree: 14%, tend to agree: 16%)

Edited April 13, 2016 by Boiler

[Janelle2002 3,865]

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34% would inform the police if they thought somebody they knew was getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria

Q: If you thought that someone who is close to you was getting involved with people who support terrorism in Syria, would you report it to the police?

4% sympathise with people who take part in suicide bombings

Q: Please tell me tell me whether you sympathise or condemn people who take part in suicide bombing to fight injustice

Net sympathise: 4% (completely sympathise: 1%, sympathise to some extent: 3%)

4% sympathise with people who commit terrorist actions as a form of political protest.

Q: To what extent do you sympathise or condemn with people who commit terrorist acts as a form of political protest?

Net sympathise: 4% (completely sympathise: 0.5: sympathise to some extent: 3.5%)

52% do not believe that homosexuality should be legal in Britain

Q: To what extent you agree or disagree with each one: homosexuality should be legal in Britain?

Net agree 18% (strongly agree 8%, tend to agree 10%)

Net disagree: 52% (strongly disagree: 38%, tend to disagree: 14%)

47% do not believe that it is acceptable for a school teacher to be homosexual

Q: To what extent do you agree or disagree that it is acceptable for a homosexual person to be a teacher in a school?

Net disagree: 47% (strongly disagree: 35%, tend to disagree: 12%)

23% support the introduction of Sharia Law.

Q: To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose there being areas of Britain in which Sharia law is introduced instead of British law?

Net support: 23% (strongly support: 7%, tend to support: 17%)

32% refuse to condemn those who take part in violence against those who mock the Prophet

Q: Please tell me whether you sympathise or condemn people who take part in violence against those who mock the Prophet

Net sympathise: 18% (completely sympathise: 9%, sympathise to some extent: 9%, neither sympathise or condemn: 14%)

39% agree that wives should always obey their husbands.

Q: To what extent you agree or disagree that wives should always obey their husbands?

Net agree: 39% (strongly agree: 15%, tend to agree: 24%)

66% completely condemn those people who take part in stoning those who commit adultery.

Q: Please tell me whether you sympathise or condemn people who take part in stoning those who commit adultery.

Net condemn: 79%. (completely condemn: 66%, condemn to some extent: 13%)

Net sympathise: 5% (completely sympathise: 2%, tend to sympathise: 3%)

31% think it's acceptable for a man to have more than one wife

Q: To what extent you agree or disagree [that] it is acceptable for a British Muslim to keep more than one wife?

Net agree: 31% (strongly agree: 14%, tend to agree: 16%)

You know, you can ask some of these questions to American men and they will TOTALLY AGREE, LIKE 75% they think wives should completely submit to them.

[Jacque67 7,328]

You know, you can ask some of these questions to American men and they will TOTALLY AGREE, LIKE 75% they think wives should completely submit to them.

Right on!!

[lostinblue 1,989]

You know, you can ask some of these questions to American men and they will TOTALLY AGREE, LIKE 75% they think wives should completely submit to them.

Post your link

[Boiler 45,516]

You know, you can ask some of these questions to American men and they will TOTALLY AGREE, LIKE 75% they think wives should completely submit to them.

I would have thought it was much more than that.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Post your link

Why post a link? The responsive article posted by Boiler says it all. And frankly was less than shocking, and I will venture to say that on most of the subjects except for suicide bombers, the answers would be quite similar if asked of US Christians.

[Boiler 45,516]

Why post a link? The responsive article posted by Boiler says it all. And frankly was less than shocking, and I will venture to say that on most of the subjects except for suicide bombers, the answers would be quite similar if asked of US Christians.

Sadly we know it is a fantasy and will not happen. We do not have Allah's support.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Sadly we know it is a fantasy and will not happen. We do not have Allah's support.

You could always convert.

[Boiler 45,516]

Easy to join it seems, not sure if I like the leaving terms.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Easy to join it seems, not sure if I like the leaving terms.

You can have 4 wives! Why leave then ?

[Boiler 45,516]

You can have 4 wives! Why leave then ?

4 MIL's?

[TBoneTX 45,291]

You can have 4 wives! Why leave then ?

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing." -- B. Disraeli (?)

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The Arkansas police judge called the next case. "What's the charge against this here fellow?" he asked the policeman.

"The charge is Bigotry, yer Honor," said the cop. "He's got three wives."

"Three wives?!" thundered the judge. "Why, you moron, that ain't Bigotry -- that's Trigonometry!"

Edited April 13, 2016 by TBoneTX

[Merrytooth 5,748]

4 MIL's?

Oops.. sorry!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Ephesians 5:2133, Colossians 3:1819, Titus 2:5, and 1 Peter 3:17.

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.