7/7 bombs staged, say one in four Muslims
A quarter of Britain's two million Muslims believe Government agents staged the July 7 suicide bombings, a new survey has found.
They think the four men named as the killers of 52 passengers on the London transport system were not responsible for the attacks.
The poll, for Channel 4 News, discovered that conspiracy theories about July 7 are rife among Muslims - similar to those about the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
More than half of the 500 Muslims polled also felt the security services had made up evidence to convict terror suspects. Muslims claimed the CCTV images of the four men arriving at Luton station en route to London were ''faked''. Others said the men were made ''convenient scapegoats".
Some even dismissed as fakes the "martyrdom" videos left by Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer admitting responsibility for the bombings.
A survey after last summer's alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners suggested that a growing number of people fear that Britain faces "a Muslim problem". More than half of the respondents to the YouGov survey said Islam posed a threat to Western liberal democracy.
Muslim groups say they are increasingly alienated from mainstream society, have no role models in key positions and are not listened to when they criticise foreign policy in Iraq and the Middle East.
A quarter of Britain's two million Muslims believe Government agents staged the July 7 suicide bombings, a new survey has found.
They think the four men named as the killers of 52 passengers on the London transport system were not responsible for the attacks.
The poll, for Channel 4 News, discovered that conspiracy theories about July 7 are rife among Muslims - similar to those about the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
More than half of the 500 Muslims polled also felt the security services had made up evidence to convict terror suspects. Muslims claimed the CCTV images of the four men arriving at Luton station en route to London were ''faked''. Others said the men were made ''convenient scapegoats".
Some even dismissed as fakes the "martyrdom" videos left by Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer admitting responsibility for the bombings.
A survey after last summer's alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners suggested that a growing number of people fear that Britain faces "a Muslim problem". More than half of the respondents to the YouGov survey said Islam posed a threat to Western liberal democracy.
Muslim groups say they are increasingly alienated from mainstream society, have no role models in key positions and are not listened to when they criticise foreign policy in Iraq and the Middle East.
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