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Tuesday 24 Nov 2015 - 14:21 Makkah mean time-12-2-1437
London, (IINA) - British Tabloid newspaperThe Sun faced criticism after publishing a misleading report of an opinion poll on its front page purporting to show that one in five British Muslims had "sympathy for jihadis," according to media reports.
Readers and Muslim organizations accused The Sun of misinterpreting the results of the poll, which showed that 5 percent of respondents agreed with the statement "I have a lot of sympathy with young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria" and that 14.5 percent said they had "some sympathy".
The Guardian reported that the survey, conducted via telephone between 18 and 20 November, was constructed by calling people with "Muslim surnames" to meet time and cost deadlines. The paper's regular pollsters, YouGov, refused to do the poll as it was not confident that it could accurately gauge the reaction of the British Muslim population in a short time frame, International Business Times reported.
"To survey Britain's Muslim population, particularly at a time of such heightened sensitivities, requires the kind of time, care and therefore cost, that is beyond the newspaper's budget," a spokesperson for YouGov told The Guardian.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) criticized “The Sun” and said the "vast majority" of British Muslims "abhor" terrorism. ""Poll after poll attests to this, as do the many surveys showing how almost all British Muslims would report someone from the Muslim community to the police if they knew they were planning an act of violence," Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the MCB, told The Guardian.
From its side, The Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO) said it had received 450 complaints about the front page by 4pm on Monday, more than for any story since the regulatory body was set up last year, World Bulletin news reported.
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