9 per cent of British adults hold a positive view of the group, up from just 2 per cent a year ago, according to pollsters ICM.
The figure suggests that 1.5 million of the country's 3 million Muslims could be ISIS sympathisers. Haras Rafiq of the Quilliam Foundation think-tank said he was "not surprised" by the findings.
He said: "There are undoubtedly a significant number of people in the UK who believe in the concept of the Islamic State. "The sheer numbers of people going out there to Syria and Iraq indicate that this support is there." Express.
Our politicians have blithely and blindly imported problems by the million - AGAINST the will of the people!