… A decade worth of detailed public opinion survey data helps to explain why many Sunni Iraqis have tolerated the Islamic State to this point – and why they would support an effort to repel the Islamic State.
My social research and marketing firm, IIACSS, has conducted intensive, nationwide surveys in Iraq for over a decade, amounting in total to more than one million interviews. …
Our survey results suggest that the Islamic State is ideologically incompatible with the many of the residents of the territory it now occupies, but that it is able to exploit the residents’ deep dissatisfaction with the incumbent government to its advantage. CONT.
Munqith al-Dagher (IIACSS), Monkey Cage