Posted on 09/23/2016 7:08:38 AM PDT by xzins
Twenty-eight percent of French Muslims hold extremist views, or are at least attracted to fundamentalism and oppose the country’s liberal way of life, according to a new study by an independent French think tank that is making waves here.
Another 25 percent of Muslim respondents in the study by the Montaigne Institute were found to be more devout and in search of their identity, but rejected the wearing of the full veil for women.
And 46 percent were either entirely secularized or in the process of becoming integrated without denying their religion.
One of the study’s authors, Hakim El Karoui, said the findings reveal that more young Muslims are being attracted by radical ideologies.
“On one hand you have this silent majority, practicing Muslims who do not feel threatened by French society,” said Hakim, who has mixed Tunisian/French parentage. “And on the other hand, you have this minority being lured by the call of Islamic fundamentalism, and who is using Islam to attack France.”
The study findings have caused a stir, and the 28 percent is being cited by right-wing politicians with an eye on next year’s presidential elections
“What I understood from this report is that a third of French Muslims are radicalized or in the process of radicalization. And this figure is increasing,” said François Fillon, who served as prime minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy. “There is a kind of momentum for radicalization.”
“28 percent of radicals?” tweeted National Front lawmaker Marion Maréchal-Le Pen. “If there are 6 million Muslims in France, it is 1.5 million!”
In television interviews, French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) president Anouar Kbibech fretted that the 28 percent figure would likely “further stigmatize Muslims.”
Bernard Godard, a former Interior Ministry official responsible for relations with Islam and author of several books on the subject said he was not really surprised by the findings.
“We already knew that a big part of young Muslims did not want to vote nor believe in the opportunities in French society,” he said in an interview.
Other findings in the report include 31 percent of respondents saying they attend mosque or a prayer room once a week, 65 percent saying they are in favor of the veil, and 70 percent saying they always buy and eat halal meat.
Many readers were surprised by the report’s estimate of the number of Muslims in France. It put the number of between three and four million, well below previous estimates of five to six million.
(French law forbids ethnic statistics for any purposes, so the conducting of the study based on people of a single religion was unusual and surprised many here.)
El Karoui concluded by giving eight recommendations for a “French Islam.”
Among them, the Arab language should be taught at schools instead of only in mosques or religious schools. He also suggested the creation of a post of state secretary for secularism and religions, the training of imams in France, and a review of French foreign policy to limit the influence of the Wahhabi regimes like those of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Godard said the study was interesting but was not impressed by the recommendations.
“And what would have been great is to propose practical and real solutions,” he said.
The study, the first major snapshot of French Muslims, found that a majority of terrorists were young Muslims who do not have a job or professional skills, and who think the state and politicians have turned their backs on them.
The study was based on an IFOP survey conducted among 1,209 people sharing the Muslim faith or culture, drawn from a sample of 15,549 people in mainland France – not necessary French citizens – aged 15 and over.
I agree with that, but I think almost all take the Koran literally because it does NOT allow for allegorizing its instructions. Those who attempt allegorizing with the Koran find themselves the objects of scorn.
So, I’m betting that 100% of muslims know that the Koran instructs killing the infidels.
So, the 28% ‘extremist’ are those willing to go out right now and kill.
The ones that admit to it are so brazen and unafraid of consequences at this point because they know how stupid leftists who run the world are, but then you have those who aren’t admitting to it yet. That percentage is still way too high.
The most optimistic viewpoint I can have on this is that there would be 4.5 million French Muslims applauding the atrocities committed by 1.5 million French Muslims.
But I suspect I am too optimistic on this.
That is part of their sick culture pretending to be a religion.
ISIS, terrorists, etc are the SS of Islam. All Muslims aren’t the active enforcers, but all support them. If Hitler and the SS had succeeded in world domination, I doubt there would have been ONE German who wouldn’t have been happy. Just as the everyday,low profile, Muslims are when terrorists strike, and would be if Islam ruled the world. Does anyone really expect homicidal maniacs to ADMIT they are?
Taqiyya (lying,deceiving,illusion) Islam’s most important ideological ...
https://sites.google.com/site/muslimdeception/taqiyya
Taqiyya (”al Taqiyya”) is the Muslims’ license to lie to infidels in order to camouflage Islam’s holy war strategy (jihad) to conquer the world.
It’s in their book. Muslims have submitted and share the same views. 28% act on it.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Yeah, and the other 72% are supplying the funds. There are no decent Muslims or they wouldn’t be Muslims.
Multiply that out to a world of 7 billion with lover 1.2 billion muslims and you have hundreds of millions of prospective terrorists who we are letting in by the plane load what can go wrong?
Well it’s like being fool hardy enough to light a cigarette next to an O2 cannister or smoke while you fill your car with gas...sooner or later there will be a KABOOM!
I really like tropical skittles.
And I don’t want even one of them to be poisoned.
You can bet that if this is what they can prove, the real number is double that.
The other 72% are being deceptive.
I’ve heard, and from what I’ve read, there is little flexibility to allegorize or symbolize the instructions of the Koran.
The money and time wasted for that study could have been used to kick a few out of the country.
If they are “devout” Muslims, I’d say the actual number would be about 90%...
Dang...that’s a lot of Skittles!
If you’d profile the skittles it would be easy.
Avoid eating any skittles with beards.
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It’s clear that the media talking heads are using the real clear average as their guideline for selling BS to the American public. Therefore, they come out with regular huge outliers now to keep her ahead in an average.
I don’t know which polls are trying to be honest, if any.
We can tell that polls are being skewed by weird weightings, demographics, and methodologies, but it would be a huge, full time job to find a way to recalibrate those.
Did you see the 5 interpretations of the same polling data that came out last week?
We need an alternative measure of voter sentiment state by state. And all of this has no way of dealing with fraud at the polling booth.
I’d love to see Trump’s internal polling.
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