Pew: Median of 59% Across 10 EU Countries Concerned About Increased Terrorism with Refugee Influx

With the influx of 1.3 million refugees and migrant asylum seekers flooding into Europe in 2015, a median 59 percent (59%) across 10 European Union (EU) countries have voiced concern about the prospect of increased terrorism, notes a recent Pew Research Center survey.

The 10 EU countries that make up the survey include: France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

According to the Pew survey, “[m]any Europeans are concerned that the influx of refugees will increase the likelihood of terrorism and impose a burden on their countries.”

A majority in eight of 10 of the EU countries surveyed believe that “refugees will increase the likelihood of terrorism in our country,” with Hungary (76%) and Poland (71%) having the largest percentage of respondents who say this.

“Around six-in-ten in Germany (61%), the Netherlands (61%) and Italy (60%) also think refugees will increase terrorism in their country,” says Pew, and slightly smaller majorities in Sweden (57%), Greece (55%) and the UK (52%) seem to agree.

France (46%) and Spain (40%) had the smallest percentage of respondents who answered that “refugees will increase the likelihood of terrorism in our country.” The two countries, France and Spain, were the only countries with a majority of respondents answering that “refugees will not increase the likelihood of terrorism in our country,” at 51 percent and 55 percent respectively. (“The survey was conducted prior to terrorist attacks in France and Germany that occurred over the summer,” notes Pew.)

Similarly, a median 50 percent (50%) across the 10 countries surveyed say that refugees and migrants are a burden to society because they “take jobs and social benefits that would otherwise be available to citizens of each nation."

Many Europeans also see refugees from the war-torn countries of Syria and Iraq as a major threat.

Of the 10 countries surveyed, the four in closest proximity to the Middle East – Poland (73%), Greece (69%), Hungary (69%) and Italy (65%) – had the largest percentage of respondents saying that a “large number of refugees leaving Iraq and Syria is a major threat to their country.”

Meanwhile, at the time of the survey, respondents in France (45%), Spain (42%), the Netherlands (36%), Germany (31%) and Sweden (24%) appeared less concerned.

I'd bet a fat % of those who claimed not to be concerned about increased terrorism with the refujihadi influx were afraid to be honest with the pollster due to a terminal case of white guilt PC progressive brain infestation.

41% are suicidally stupid and brainwashed or fearful

you get a million guys named moohammed in your country and things are going to start blowing up. It isn’t rocket science

3 posted on 09/20/2016 8:23:51 PM PDT by brucedickinson

France???

4 posted on 09/20/2016 8:26:22 PM PDT by freespirit2012

you get a million guys named moohammed in your country and things are going to start blowing up. It isn’t rocket science

No, it's sociology. Which isn't rocket science, either.

5 posted on 09/21/2016 5:36:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine

respondents saying that a “large number of refugees leaving Iraq and Syria is a major threat to their country.”

Well, it's not so much Iraqis and Syrians leaving their countries that is the problem, it's them coming to your country.

6 posted on 09/21/2016 6:39:28 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)

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