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Survey exposes French anxieties over Islam
France 24 ^ | 26/10/2012 | France 24

Posted on 10/29/2012 2:08:24 AM PDT by expat1000

he role of Islam in France was once again under the spotlight on Thursday after right-wing daily Le Figaro published the results of an opinion poll that suggested 43 percent of French people believe the religion is a “threat” to national identity. By FRANCE 24 (text)

Six out of ten French people believe the influence of Islam in France is “too big” and 43 percent see the religion as a “threat” to national identity, according to the results of an opinion poll published on Thursday. The sensitive poll, which will likely cause ripples in a country home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, was carried out by Ifop polling institute for right-wing daily Le Figaro, which published the results under the headline “The image of Islam worsens in France”.

Only 17 percent of respondents believed Islam “enriched” France’s culture and 40 percent said it was neither a threat to the country’s national identity nor of benefit to its culture.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: france; islam

1 posted on 10/29/2012 2:08:30 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000

Time to drive the Satanists out of every civilized nation on the planet.


2 posted on 10/29/2012 2:26:20 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: expat1000

BTW, just love how they put threat in quotation marks. Showing their bias.


3 posted on 10/29/2012 2:27:50 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: expat1000
Gotta admit......




The "cut off his head" theme is kinda the same!!
4 posted on 10/29/2012 2:33:42 AM PDT by djf (Political Science: Conservatives = govern-ment. Liberals = givin-me-it.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

>>BTW, just love how they put threat in quotation marks. Showing their bias.

Yeah, I noticed that too.


5 posted on 10/29/2012 2:34:10 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: fieldmarshaldj

>>BTW, just love how they put threat in quotation marks. Showing their bias.

Yeah, I noticed that too.


6 posted on 10/29/2012 2:34:18 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000

National IDENTITY???

How about National SECURITY?

France, they are not there to assimilate, they are there to dominate.


7 posted on 10/29/2012 3:49:02 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: expat1000

Sorry, France. I can’t work up a lot of sympathy. You don’t invite the Devil to dinner and expect him not to stay for dessert. You’re worried about image when your worries should be for your survival and soul.


8 posted on 10/29/2012 3:55:00 AM PDT by whatshotandwhatsnot (Islam Wants You Dead!)
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To: expat1000

The other 57% were muslims.


9 posted on 10/29/2012 3:57:03 AM PDT by paintriot (I've seen too much.....)
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To: expat1000

Idiotic foreign policy, coupled with their past Imperial ambition in Africa, came home to roost.

The gutless political class didn’t want to face the problem, so the solution is to educate the general public ‘There is nothing to FEAR islam’, and ‘bigotry towards mooooooslems’. When ethnic (I know the wrong choice of word) conflicts flare up, they decided to pull back policing from troubled neighborhoods and keep mum on reporting.

Decades later, how do you expect situations to improve?


10 posted on 10/29/2012 4:28:49 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: expat1000
Edward Gibbon on the Battle of Poitiers in 732:

A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

11 posted on 10/29/2012 4:30:39 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Leaving Islam?...http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/leave-islam/)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Decades later, how do you expect situations to improve?

The way these situations always resolve themselves. When politicians fail- nations go to war . although in this case more likely will start as localised killing of urban ferals.
Look at local new in any bigger city in USA, people are tired of letting law enforcement or local gvt deal with issue.
There are righteous killings of feral criminals every day.
When the feral two leggers fear the general citizenry then this behaviour will end, until then it will be bloody battle


12 posted on 10/29/2012 4:37:56 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: whatshotandwhatsnot

France tries to force assimilation by forbidding the wearing of headscarves in public schools; they are determined to try to make these people “French” (and expel them if they don’t abide by that). I wish we were as firm as them.


13 posted on 10/29/2012 4:44:24 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: expat1000

43% is too little. And it’s not a religion. It’s a world-domination ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.


14 posted on 10/29/2012 5:30:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Death cult: world-domination ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.)
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To: expat1000

Too late now, my froggie friends.


15 posted on 10/29/2012 5:31:38 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: expat1000

Any follow-up on that group that took over the mosque and put the banners up?


16 posted on 10/29/2012 5:40:29 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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