Two�petitions have been launched in the UK charging the Sun newspaper with incitement to racial hatred after the tabloid published a poll claiming that one in five Muslims have sympathy with ISIL militants.

One petition accuses the Sun owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch of crossing the line from��merely distasteful into criminal incitement�. It has already amassed more than�8,000 signatures.�Another petition on Change.com has attracted almost 21,000 signatures.



Since the terrorist attacks in Paris, hate crimes against Muslims have jumped a staggering 275 percent in the UK.

Most of the reported incidents were attacks against young Muslim women wearing the hijab.

Critics of the Sun�have been quick to question the polling methodology used by Survation, the firm that conducted the survey.

Rival polling companies have expressed concern that without a fuller picture of socioeconomic and demographic details, the results may not have generated a statistically representative sample of the almost three million Muslims living in the UK.



YouGov, the Sun�s regular pollster, had refused to conduct the poll, saying it would not be able to accurately represent Britain�s Muslim population with the time frame and budget allocated by the Sun.

By PressTV