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The UK Government's discrimination in higher education may be contributing to young Muslims'exodus to the Islamic State.

POLL: HALF OF BRITISH MUSLIMS MAY BE ISIS SYMPATHISERS – MUSLIM ASSOCIATION BLAMES TORY CUTS
 
Despite the horrific actions of the Islamist terror group over the past 12 months, one and a half million British Muslims have been identified as potential supporters of Islamic State (IS) in a recently conducted poll.
 
Support for the group in the UK has grown from seven per cent to nine per cent since 2014, the ICM poll of 2016 people commissioned by The Mirror revealed.
 
Three per cent of Britons now declare a "very favourable view" of IS – rising from one per cent last year – which means numerically up to half of Britain's three million Muslims may be supporters. Astonishingly, fully six per cent of the population register a "somewhat favorable" view of the group, up by one per cent.
 
More predictably those with a "very un-favorable" view of IS has risen from 45 to 80 per cent – in a year of beheadings, human burnings, drowning, mass rape and attempted genocide.
 
"One reason [for the support] may be due to the perception that ISIS represents an opponent to the West and those who are dissatisfied or disenfranchised with the new Tory policies – of further cuts and civil rights strangulation – are using this anonymous platform to express their frustration" Omer El-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain, told The Mirror.
 
The Mirror poll follows a study released last week, based on four recent polls, which revealed that worldwide 8.5 million people view ISIS positively, and around 42 million somewhat positively.
 
Haras Rafiq of counter-extremism thinktank the Quilliam Foundation said:
 
"It is deeply worrying that after a year of carnage and cruelty, there is still this support for Islamic State. But I'm not surprised. For decades now, Islamists have been been indoctrinating young Muslims with extremist ideas without being challenged.
 
"…The sheer numbers of people going out there to Syria and Iraq indicate that this support is there. Many more might not be ready to move there just yet but the longer that IS retain the land they have seized, the more we will see people being persuaded to join."
 
Rafiq concluded by asking Muslim communities to work with the rest of society "to make Islamism as unfashionable among our young people as fascism and communism".
 
 



On Monday, 6 July 2015, 22:00, "Afrika Watch afrikawatch@yahoo.com [AfricaRealities]" <AfricaRealities@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 

Pupils denied university place due to immigration status 'should get loans'

Providing loans to teenagers who are denied university places because of their immigration status would benefit the whole of society, the supreme court has been told.
Opening a challenge against government restrictions on eligibility for student finance, Helen Mountfield QC said that hundreds of pupils every year were being condemned to less productive lives. "They have settled in this country, in effect cannot be removed, but are unable to go to university," she told the five supreme court justices hearing the case.
Under guidelines operated by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, those granted discretionary or limited leave to remain in the UK are not entitled to a student loan. Only those with citizenship or indefinite leave to remain can borrow the full £9,000 a year.
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Young, gifted and blocked: Meet the young people denied student loans in Britain

Changes made to the student loan system in 2011 mean that hundreds of smart young people who have lived in the UK for years won't be able to accept their university offers due to lack of funding. Radhika Sanghani meets them

Dozens of students are standing outside the Supreme Court in London, chanting: "Young, gifted and blocked!"
Their T-shirts are emblazoned with the same message. While their placards read: "Bright, ambitious, hard-working… and heartbroken. Let us learn."
All these students want is the right to do just that: study.
They have all received offers from British universities and are predicted to achieve the necessary grades to take up their chosen course, come August. Some have already completed their A-levels and passed with flying colours.
They should, by rights, be celebrating their success and heading off to uni.
But instead they spent Wednesday morning, this week, campaigning for a change in the Government's student finance system.
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