A recent survey showed that most of the youth in the Arab countries are now beginning to reject the existence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and assured the group it would fail to establish the caliphate.
Arab Youth Survey 2016 held international survey respondents Pinn Schoen Berland from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.
The survey included 3,500 respondents aged 18-24 years who were asked a variety of issues related to life in the Middle East.
As a result, only 13 percent of young men said they would support the ISIS although this group did not use a lot of violence in his campaign, down from 19 percent last year.
While 50 percent of respondents see ISIS as the biggest problem in the Middle East, up from only 37 percent last year.
The survey also showed that young people assess the lack of courts and employment are the main causes of the rampant recruitment of militants.
Eight of the 16 countries surveyed, calling the high unemployment rate and not the extreme religious views are to be fertile ground development of ISIS.
The survey has been held eight consecutive years this provides a concise overview of the aspirations of the 200 million people in the region.
The survey shows that most young people in the Arab countries is now a higher priority than the fight for democratic stability.
Optimism that the conditions of the Middle East will be better after the wave of Arab Spring in 2011 slowly declining.
In 2016, only 36 percent of Middle Eastern youths who consider the region to be better after the Arab Spring. Whereas in 2012, the figure reached 72 percent optimism.
About 53 percent of respondents agreed that maintaining stability is much more important than the fight for democracy.
In 2011, 92 percent of young Arabs say, live in a democracy is one of their dreams. However, now only 28 percent who still have the same dream.
Source: kompasnews
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