Posted on 07/01/2015 6:21:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Global support for ISIS may be much bigger than previously known, according to a new report that found as many as 42 million Muslims around the world have positive feelings about the black-clad army of barbarians that established a so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq last year.
The report from the New York-based research institute Clarion Project crunched numbers from four recent polls surveying Arab public opinion toward ISIS. Clarion found the terror group's supporters are 8.5 million strong, but more than 42 million of the world's estimated 1.5 billion Muslims feel at least somewhat positively about the terror group.
“It means sympathy,” Ryan Mauro, Clarion's national security analyst, told FoxNews.com. “There are those who are wholly supportive of the Islamic State, and those who are somewhat supportive.”
The study was based on figures from a March 2015 poll by the Iraq-based Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies, a November 2014 poll by Zogby Research Services, a November 2014 poll by the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and an October 2014 poll by the Fikra Forum commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Not too long ago these lunatics were confined to remote backwaters. Now with open borders, get travel and even Western navies giving them a lift, they can and do go everywhere.
Seems low, I would bet 10X42 million.
I would estimate that the numbers would be bigger if you included those who just sit back and let ISIS have their way, numbers like that matter more than the numbers that actively sponsor, because sitting back is pretty much allowing them to do as they please.
If you somehow counted all those who sat back and watched, it would probably be close to what you said.
That’s about what... 3% of Muslims? At that level, you don’t have a misinterpretation of religious texts. You have a valid sect.
We’ll see how much Obama loves being Muslim when they storm DC and remove him as president and install their own.
If anyone, it'll be Patriots who remove him.
42+ Million radical Muslims worldwide supporting the subjugation, rape and murder of women, along with routine death sentence throwing homosexuals off of building roofs -
Yet we hear nothing from women’s and gay rights organizations taking on this alarming savagery that poses a real growing deadly threat to their very existence...
Not bad for a JV Team
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