A headline in the Daily Mail the other day caught my eye: "One third of British Muslim students say it's acceptable to kill for Islam." The report breathlessly recounts the usual Islamophobic rhetoric, that Muslims think murder is great and want Sharia law across the world, attitudes I rarely see among my Muslim friends. The results were based on a YouGov poll that didn't appear in any of the other news sources I regularly scan, nor even on YouGov's website. Intrigued, I did a bit of digging, and what I found was quite disturbing.
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