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Two-thirds of British Muslims said in 2016 poll they wouldn’t share terrorist info with police

Dave Urbanski  8 hours

A 2016 poll of British Muslims found that two-thirds of respondents wouldn't tell police if they knew someone who was getting involved with others who support terrorism in Syria. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) 

In the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in Manchester, England, on Monday night — a suicide bombing that took 22 lives and for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility — the results of a 2016 poll of British Muslims could speak to the nation’s present security concerns.

Among the findings revealed in April 2016 were that two-thirds of British Muslims would not notify police if they knew someone who was getting involved with others who support terrorism in Syria.

Other noteworthy stats: About one-third of respondents refused to condemn those who use violence against those who mock the Prophet Muhammad, and almost one-quarter agreed with the introduction of Sharia law in England.

Trevor Phillips, former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, looked at the poll results for British Channel 4 — which commissioned the survey — and called them “astonishing” and “troubling,” the Express reported.

Phillips told the Express that the numbers demonstrated “the unacknowledged creation of a nation within the nation, with its own geography, its own values and its own very separate future.”

“For a long time, I, too, thought that Europe’s Muslims would become like previous waves of migrants, gradually abandoning their ancestral ways, wearing their religious and cultural baggage lightly, and gradually blending into Britain’s diverse identity landscape,” he told the paper, the Express said.

The Muslim Council of Britain rejected the poll results, saying it contradicted findings of earlier studies, the New York Times reported. One of the group’s leaders, Miqdaad Versi, said the survey used views from a “fringe minority” to paint an inaccurate picture of the larger Muslim population in England.

Channel 4 said the poll was conducted through face-to-face interviews with 1,081 self-identifying Muslim adults in areas where Muslims constituted at least 20 percent of the population. The Times said nearly half of British Muslims weren’t eligible for the sample, citing ICM Unlimited, which conducted the poll.

Martin Boon, the polling company’s director, defended the results, the Times noted, and characterized it as “the most rigorous research into the views of British Muslims for many years.”

“There will always be a reason to treat surveys with caution — compromises have to be made and that often implies that theoretical purity is an elusive concept,” Boon told the paper. “We’ve yet to see any evidence from this poll’s detractors that Muslims living in more integrated areas have different views.”

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In addition to the new tax bracket, announced by Alistair Darling in the Budget last April, high earners will also be subject to a new 42.5 per cent tax on dividends while those people making more than £100,000 a year will have their personal allowance reduced.
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Don't Touch That!!

And speaking of PC idiocies, this latest affront comes from the UK via Betsy:

The animus against gun possession in England is so strong that a man who found a gun in his backyard and delivered it to the police is now facing a jail term.

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year's imprisonment for handing in the weapon.

Apparently, his crime is bringing it to the police himself and not calling the police to come pick it up themselves. And for this the guy faces a minimum of five years in jail. This in a country that has been letting criminals out of jail because of overcrowding. That problem has gotten to be so bad that the British Ministry of Justice estimates that criminals let out of English prisons commit an average of a murder and a rape every week.

In the two years to April this year, offenders serving community sentences and suspended sentences were convicted of a total of 121 murders and 103 rapes.

The Figures from the Ministry of Justice put new pressure on ministers over their drive to keep offenders out of jail because of prison overcrowding.

Community sentences are supposed to be passed on to criminals who have committed only relatively minor offences and who do not pose a danger to the public.

There were a total of 1,004 serious crimes committed by offenders being supervised by the Probation Service between 2006 and 2008.

The offences included 22 attempted murders, 44 acts of manslaughter and 682 other serious violent or sexual offences.

Another 374 alleged offences committed by criminals on community sentences have yet to come to trial.

The number of offenders being spared jail and given community-based sentences instead is rising. Some 162,650 offenders started supervised community sentences in 2007, a 5 per cent rise from 2006.

The number of offenders supervised by the Probation Service was 242,720 at 31 December 2007, up 3 per cent on the previous year.

Earlier this week it was revealed that prisoners set free early to cut jail numbers have been accused of three murders.

We'll see if there is discretion in sentencing for Paul Clarke.