Bahrain Mirror (AFP): 21% of Bahraini youths saw that Jihadi organizations such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda "sometimes bring up issues that we agree on." This came in the results of a poll conducted by the Washington-based Zogby Research Services (ZRS).

The survey of 5,374 young Muslim men and women from the Middle East and North Africa was conducted in October and November 2015 with respondents aged 15 to 34 in Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories.

39 percent were polled in Kuwait, 28 percent in Saudi Arabia, 21 percent in Bahrain and 17% in the Palestinian territory.

The ZRS poll was commissioned by the Abu Dhabi-based Tabah Foundation to explore the views of Arab Muslim millennials, specifically with regard to their attitudes toward religious extremism and other related issues.

This survey comes at a time the influence of extremist jihadi organizations is growing as a number of groups have taken over vast areas in Arab states, particularly Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, benefiting from the ramifications of the popular protests against ruling regimes that erupted in 2011, which led to bloody conflicts in some cases.

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