Due to these reasons, we were unsure of using non-Muslim researchers from outside communities (field research assistants for the house to house survey).
Deirdre Steed, who worked with Morris to secure funding for the film, said the satirist, who fronted The Day Today and Brass Eye, has spoken to terrorism experts, imams, police, secret services and hundreds of Muslims to research the film.
And as for eastern Europeans and Muslims, while researching this article, a university lecturer told me quite casually: "I'm now scared to tell a taxi driver that I'm Polish".
A recent Understanding The Threat fundraising email made the baseless claim that American mosques and Islamic centers are "organizing for armed confrontation with law-enforcement," and that Muslims are researching "churches and other targets" for an "enemy" insurgency. .
As a consequence, the focus has shifted to a more indirect way of mobilizing Muslim adolescents for research by using the Internet.
While he stressed it would be wrong to lay all the blame at the feet of Muslims, Peter Ulrich, a research fellow at the centre for antisemitism research (ZfA) at Berlin's Technical University, agreed that some of the "antisemitic elements" Germany has seen at recent protests could be "a kind of rebellion of people who are themselves excluded on the basis of racist structures".
Yahya Birt, an academic researching Muslim political activism, and a member of the #EducationNotSurveillance network, says children are being "scooped up" and stigmatised as potential extremists, pointing to figures that suggest only 20% of those referred to Channel up to 2013 were assessed as needing its intervention.
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Dalia Mogahed, who oversees Gallup's research on Muslim opinion, has made some stark observations about that poll.
