By The Sun received a fair amount of ridicule yesterday for claiming on its front page that 1 in 5 British Muslims have “sympathy for jihadis.” This isn’t the first time the Murdoch-owned British tabloid has blatantly printed inaccuracies, but for Muslims, this is another blow in the recent onslaught of Islamophobic headlines following the Paris attacks a couple weeks ago.
The poll cited by the tabloid was conducted via telephone by market research firm Survation. Interviewing 1,0003 U.K. residents self-identifying as Muslim, Survation found that 14% of those polled said they had “some sympathy” for Muslim youth who have left to join fighters in Syria, while 5% had “a lot of sympathy.”
Many have questioned the accuracy of The Sun‘s reporting regarding how the polling questions were asked. It is notable that the tabloid ignores the fact that the number of U.K. Muslims expressing “a lot of sympathy” was much smaller, as well as the fact that 14% of non-Muslims also expressed sympathy for those who left to join Syrian fighters in a poll by Survation back in March.
Also, the poll did not ask respondents which groups the youth that they had sympathy for were joining, nor did it ask why they felt sympathy.
Alas, out of all of this, came yet another wonderful hashtag. Muslims from the United Kingdom and beyond took to Twitter to share their own statistics with #1in5Muslims.
One thing is clear: at least #1in5Muslims has a wicked sense of humor!
why do y’all wash your feet so much? don’t you wear shoes?
Basically, before we offer prayer, we have to be clean. So we must make ablution before we pray to kind of get rid of any accumulated dirt. Part of the process of ablution is to wash your feet. So I guess if someone found themselves needing to pray but didn’t have Wudu (ablution) they’d have to wash their feet in a public bathrooms, although I would personally just let it wait.
Hope this was helpful.
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yes I understand wudu. my question is why would you consider your feet dirty if you have shoes and socks on.
” to kind of get rid of any accumulated dirt” what accumulated dirt? if you life in a developed country you should be walking around on concrete most the time. it is not like you are wearing sandals and in the desert.
isn’t this a ritual that is no longer needed?
We all accumulate dirt even when we sometimes can’t see. When we go in the shower, we aren’t usually visibly dirty, are we? I mean, we go wash our bodies, but we have been wearing clothes all day, right?
Fluff from socks gets between toes, nothing serious.
Just a ritual we follow. And we don’t do it five times a day. sometimes the wudu lasts over more than one namaaz
yes, it is just a ritual.
its only about 5 times. its not that much
#1in5Muslims will have daal tonight.
“You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.”
1 Peter 4:3 NLT
http://bible.com/116/1pe.4.3.nlt