Posted on 12/03/2010 8:22:44 AM PST by Eurotwit
Germans are more critical of Islam and less tolerant of building mosques than their neighbours in France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal, a new survey has found.
Despite the other European countries’ often fractious relationships with their Muslim communities, people there were relatively positive about Islam and its followers compared to Germany, according to the survey commissioned by a research group based at the University of Münster.
According to weekly Die Zeit, which reported on an advance version of the study on Thursday, four out of 10 Germans in the former west of the country and 50 percent in the former east feel threatened by foreign cultures.
“Compared with the French, Dutch and Danish, a rigid and intolerant grasp of foreign religions predominates in Germany,” said the head of the project, sociologist Detlef Pollack. “The statement that Islam is part of Germany is completely disregarded in the opinions of Germans.”
The polling firm TNS Emnid, on behalf of the Münster researchers, surveyed 1,000 people each in the former west and former east Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal. The study will be officially released later on Thursday in Berlin.
Fewer than 5 percent of Germans, compared with more than 20 percent of Danes, French and Dutch consider Islam to be a tolerant religion, according to the study.
Each of the other countries has had high-profile conflict with their Muslim communities – such as the Prophet Mohammed cartoons in Denmark, head scarf controversies in France and the murder of anti-Islam filmmaker Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, as well as the rise of far-right politician Geert Wilders.
Nevertheless, a clear majority of people in those countries have a positive view of Muslims. By contrast, just 34 percent of western Germans and 26 percent of eastern Germans are positive about Muslims.
Most Germans saw barely any positive side to Islam, Pollack said. Less than 30 percent in the former west supported the building of mosques, while in the former east the figure was less than 20 percent. The acceptance of minarets or the adoption of Muslim holidays received even less support.
In Denmark, by comparison, more than half of respondents supported the building of mosques, while in France and the Netherlands the figure was about two-thirds and in Portugal it was nearly three quarters.
I've always found the Germans to be very intelligent.
I was reading Zero Hedge which has investor types, pretty sharp people and they are almost ALL TV haters like me. They all joke at how CNBC is now ALL propaganda for Wall Street and the REGIME. Totally disgusting.
I laugh when people here bash me about loathing TV. They have no clue what is going on. When we get hyperinflation like Germany and the dollar is worthless - maybe they might get it.
Obama is Chavez, Hitler and Mugabe rolled into one.
Sadly the Germany military aristocracy should have deported Hitler then destroyed the SS and SA when they had the chance.
Tom Cruise is an idiot but Valkyrie was quite good. A real tragedy.
It’s not easy to “peg” anyone in just a few posts on a message board... :-)
Personally I am pro-Norway most of all xD
Cheers and all the best for the weekend.
The only thing I watch on the telly is English soccer and breaking news events...
Sometimes the CMA awards to please my old man. hehe.
Cheers.
The only thing I watch on the telly is English soccer and major breaking news events...
Sometimes the CMA awards to please my old man. hehe.
Cheers.
East Germany consists of five Laender: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (pop. 1.65 million), Brandenburg (pop. 2.51 million), Sachsen (pop. 4.16 million), Sachsen-Anhalt (pop. 2.35 million) and Thuringen (pop. 2.25 million) - as well as the city of Berlin (pop. 3.44 million).
That is 16.36 million.
The total population of Germany is 81.75 million.
Subtracting the 16.36 million East Germans from the total German population gives us 65.39 million West Germans.
If 4 out of 10 West Germans disapprove of Islam, that gives us 40% of 65.39 or 26.16 million.
If 50% of East Germans disapprove of Islam, that gives us half of 16.36 million East Germans or 8.18 million.
26.16 and 8.18 million is 34.34 million. Disapprovers of Islam as a percentage of the total population of 81.75 million would then be 42%.
So, a further examination shows that my back-of-the-envelope assumption of 41% was extremely close.
I guess I don't need to work on my statistics at all. 58% of Germans, according to this survey, don't seem to have any issues with Islam.
I do’nt think the Muzzies read much of anything other than their “How to kill innocents” manual (aka Koran) and A Jazeera propaganda.
the problem is, that the target was all wrong. Hitler was a demented maniac with a hatred of imperfection, like a lot of artists. Artists are searching all the time for a perfection that in always has been and will be unrealistic. They are also impractical.
And, actually, since West Berlin was part of West Germany and was two-thirds of the Berlin population when the Wall fell, that would bring the population of the former East Germany to about 14.2 million - and the percentage of this poll closer to 41%.
You are right that your calculation was rather good. It’s me, however, that needs to read you posts more carefully :-P
Though I disagree with your conclusion - “58 percent have no problems with islam” That is clearly faulty and can be inferred from the other results of the poll :-)
Cheers and a good weekend to you.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide.
58% of Germans, according to this survey, don’t seem to have any issues with Islam.…or were lying.
Do you own a Focke-Wulf 190 fighter?
> It’s not easy to “peg” anyone in just a few posts on a message board
I’m German myself and can peg him after a few sentences. Either Neonazi or ultra-leftist.
Tolerance to Islam is “pre-emptive cringing” (Mark Steyn’s term).
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