NDM Week 12 (ii)

MPs demand meeting with Sun editor over Muslim survey story

MPs have requested a meeting with the manager of the Sun daily paper for affirming a front-page story that dishonestly asserted one in five British Muslims had sensitivity for the individuals who have left to battle for Islamic State in Syria. The 10 MPs said in a letter to the Sun on Thursday: "We are keeping in touch with solicitation a meeting with you in regards to your late story '1 in 5 Brit Muslims' sensitivity for jihadists' from Monday 23 November." Shabana Mahmood, Labor MP for Birmingham Ladywood, drove the Labor backbench require a clarification from Tony Gallagher, the tabloid's proofreader. The MPs said they were concerned in regards to the effect "imperfect" and "deceiving" stories have in stirring scorn violations.

• “Figures this week show that in one week since the barbaric Paris attacks hate crimes against Muslims have increased by 300% in the UK,” 
• this week there had been an “alarming increase” in attacks on British Muslims.
• Mahmood pointing out: “This data suggests that the views of Muslims and non-Muslims are not that different.” 
• database of 42m profiles against a list of what it described as “1,500 Muslim surnames”.
• However, the Sun defended its reporting. “People are angry because we dared to tell the truth. Bizarre, no?”