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.
That’s a huge percent of potential terrorists
The other 72% are lying.
The supposed silent muslim majority goes all sharia on everyone when they get in the majority. They aren’t moderates....they are those who bide their time.
72% lied and said that they were non violent.
“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.”
Which is the cause, and which are the consequences?
Muslim silence on Jihadi terrorism is ACCEPTANCE and ENDORSEMENT.
All except agnostics do because Sharia and the Koran push what we call terrorism.
Lying is ok to them as long as it promotes their cause. We are too naive to believe it.
In a social welfare state, many have arrived just to live off the social welfare system. They don’t want a job.
I agree
100% are religiously obligated to seek the submission of everyone on the planet to Allah/Satan.
Inside every Muslim, lie the seeds of a very violent Islamic Jihadist terrorist. The words of the Koran have been repeated over and over, it only takes a spark to ignite that powder keg, the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture, that fills each of their hearts.
France has been letting in Muslims from all over the former French colonial empire for a couple of hundred years. But only recently has this reached critical mass.
With radical leaners at only 28%, I’d say that France got the *good* ones.
When they do ‘speak,’ they speak of how they ‘fear’ Islamophobia or retribution, they let CAIR speak for them or they just say nothing at all but “I am an American.”
BS
So it’s 28 poisoned skittles in the bowl of 100.
Thanks for the update.
Not extremist. They are literal. They take the kran literally. Moderates don’t. Thus, literal muslins go for sharia.
Exactly right.
Amazing how that fact is lost on half of the general population.
It’s not lost on obama and his pals, that’s for sure.
True.
I’m sick of the terrorists being called extremists or radicals.
The terrorists are muslims - anyone who can read will agree. The quran and hadith are clear.
It’s the so-called moderates who are NOT following islam.
>>France has been letting in Muslims from all over the former French colonial empire for a couple of hundred years. But only recently has this reached critical mass.<<
I think there is a second part that is worth mention to the goings on in France. France is no longer a Christian country. I found online 35% of the French have no religion. 5% go to weekly service.
http://about-france.com/religion.htm
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