The hashtag 1in5Muslims has thrown up a whole host of alternative headlines to the Sun Newspaper's claims that 500,000 Muslims may have sympanthy with Jihadists.
According to the Sun yesterday, 1 in 5 British Muslims sympathise with Jihadists fighting in Syria. The front page story story was lampooned across social media.
In response to the unsubstantiated headline and story, Twitter has responded magnificently.
#1in5Muslims have forcefully converted their cat to islam pic.twitter.com/RCvwaqKuw6
— Anas (@Saka1410) November 23, 2015
#1in5Muslims returns my 'Salaams' with 'rubber dinghy rapids bro!'
— Riz Ahmed (@rizmc) November 24, 2015
#1in5Muslims use 'Inshallah' to politely avoid committing to any plan. (And it works.) "Wanna get coffee sometime?" "Sure, yeah, inshallah."
— Mehreen Kasana (@mehreenkasana) November 23, 2015
#1in5Muslims wash their feet in the bathroom and get dirty looks from people who don't even wash their hands lol
— Ruqaiya (@ruqxx) November 24, 2015
#1in5Muslims have a mild phobia of dogs. 4/5 die on sight.
— Raz (@raztweets) November 24, 2015
#1in5Muslims fornicate, drink alcohol, smoke weed, but wouldn't go anywhere near bacon flavoured crisps cos it's haram bro...
— Maz Bonafide (@MazBONAFIDE) November 23, 2015
#1in5muslims think Ross and Rachel were on a break
— ثناء (@LiberatedSoul_) November 23, 2015
#1in5muslims look like Zayn Malik, according to their mums.
— Sarkhaíl Khan (@Sarkhail7Khan) November 23, 2015
#1in5Muslims get asked if they shower with their hijab on.
— Leeya (@Soul_Dignified) November 23, 2015
#1in5Muslims are doctors. The other 4/5 are medical students.
— Raz (@raztweets) November 24, 2015
#1in5Muslims keep an emergency beard on standby - just in case😉 pic.twitter.com/Hh8IYm2pmq
— Taaliah Nazar (@Taaliah76) November 23, 2015
Meanwhile a petition caling for the Sun to apologise for 'inflammatory and extremely damaging' front page has hit over 13,000 signitures in less than 24 hours.
The peition states, "This headline and article is not only an innacurate lie but is also inflammatory and extremely damaging to our community cohesion and goes no way to helping to solve the problems we are currently faced with. We feel this amounts to inciting religious and racial hatred and promotes Islamophobia. We must show the Muslim population of Britain that we will not let hatred triumph and that in unity, together, we shall overcome this.
"We the people demand that The Sun apologises for the utterly disgraceful article and removes it immediately."
You can view the petition here: https://www.change.org
The Sun Newspaper today predictably hit back at accusations in it's leader column stating, "If we cling to the fiction that IS have little or no support here we cannot begin to grasp why so many alienated British youths are seduced by its extremism and murder and why so many more openly promote it.
"Most of our survey, commissioned after the Paris atrocities, probed Muslim attitudes to IS specifically. No one agreeing to the statement.
“I have a lot of sympathy with young Muslims who leave the UK to join fighters in Syria” was in any doubt which fighters we meant."
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