‘From distasteful to criminal’: Thousands sign petitions to prosecute Sun over Muslim poll

‘Petitions have been launched demanding the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun newspaper be charged with incitement to racial hatred after the tabloid published poll results alleging one in five Muslims “have sympathy for jihadis” on its front page.

One petition, which accuses the Sun of crossing the line from “merely distasteful into criminal incitement,” has amassed more than 8,000 signatures, while another on Change.org as attracted almost 21,000.

In the weeks since the terrorist attacks in Paris, hate crimes against Muslims have jumped a staggering 275 percent in the UK. The majority of the reported incidents were attacks against young Muslim women wearing the hijab.’

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