Study: Third of France’s Young Muslims Hold “Fundamentalist” Religious Views

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Further proof to the lie that jihad is only a radical fringe and/or a tiny handful of extremists. The fact is that millions of Muslims are waging jihad across the world. And hundreds of millions more support jihad. This is not difficult to understand. I don’t wear a uniform or carry a weapon, but I support the US military with every fiber of my being. Devout Muslims support the jihadic doctrine and attendant holy war.

A study looking at the prevalence of the jihadic ideology among high school students has found that French Muslims are much more likely to sanction violence and to hold “fundamentalist” religious views than other pupils. This is consistent with any number of similar studies on Muslims. A recent Pew Poll found that a large percentage of Muslim youths in the West support suicide bombing.

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The higher levels of support for suicide bombing seen among young American Muslims resembles patterns found among Muslims in Europe, where Muslims also constitute a minority population. In Great Britain, France and Germany, Muslims under the age of 30 are consistently the least likely to say that suicide bombing is never justified. In other words, the share who think suicide bombing against civilians can ever be justified, even if rarely, is higher among those younger than 30 compared with those who are older. About a quarter (26%) of younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombing can at least rarely be justified, 17 percentage points higher than the proportion of Muslims ages 30 and older (9%) who share that view. The age gap is about as wide in Great Britain (18 percentage points) but somewhat narrower in Germany (12 points), France (11 points) and Spain (7 points).

These numbers are only increasing. This latest study of young Muslims in France:

– A young Muslim is four times more likely to adhere to radical beliefs than a Christian.

– 33% of Muslim students consider it “acceptable” to “participate in violent actions for his ideas”. In other words, a third are sympathetic towards terrorism.

– 20% of Muslim students agreed with the statement that it was “acceptable to stand up for your religion with weapons”.

– 24% of those surveyed refused to fully condemn the Charlie Hebdo killings.

– 21% of those surveyed refused to fully condemn the Bataclan theater massacre during which 89 people were killed as part of the wider November 13 Paris attack that claimed 130 lives.

Study: Third of France’s Young Muslims Hold Fundamentalist Religious Views

by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, March 21, 2017:

A study looking at the prevalence of radical ideology among high school students has found that French Muslims are much more likely to tolerate violence and to hold fundamentalist religious views than other pupils.

The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) study involved more than 7,000 students, aged between 14 and 16, who were studying at 21 schools and four academies in France.

Sociologists who conducted the survey, Anne Muxel and Olivier Galland, stressed the sample is not representative of French youth as a whole.

The schools included in the study are located in poor areas, with overrepresentation in the student body of pupils from working class backgrounds (41 per cent), students with immigrant backgrounds (38 per cent), and Muslims (25 per cent).

The CNRS reported that 11 per cent of respondents overall adhere to religious fundamentalism, which rises to 32 per cent among Muslim youths.

Mr. Galland noted a “striking difference” between the figure compared with six per cent of Christians and 0.6 per cent of non-Muslims identified by the governmental research organisation as “religious absolutists”.

“However, two-thirds of Muslims do not adhere to these ideas,” the sociologist added.

On the topic of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher Islamist terror attacks, which took place in Paris in 2015, 32 per cent of respondents would not fully condemn the actions.

Just under 25 per cent of the young people questioned said they consider certain violent and deviant behaviours legitimate (stealing a scooter, confronting the police, and taking violent action for ideological reasons).

A third of Muslim schoolchildren (33 per cent) defended such actions, compared to 20 per cent of Christians, and 22 per cent of pupils who declare themselves as irreligious.

44 per cent of the students who were both classed as having fundamentalist religious views and who said they tolerate some forms of violence said it’s acceptable “in some cases in today’s society … to take up arms and fight for his religion”.

70 per cent of this group do not condemn the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher Islamist terror attacks.

“The spread of radical ideas is around three times stronger among young Muslims than in the sample as a whole,” said Mr. Galland.

“But it is ultimately only a very small proportion: radical absolutism is far from being a majority amongst Muslims!” the sociologist emphasised.

“A purely economic explanation does not seem valid,” said Mr. Gallard on the topic of identifying factors that increase a person’s susceptibility to radical beliefs. “Membership of the Islamic faith is the biggest predictive factor.”

The CNRS also reports that secularism and gender equality were fairly widely recognised by respondents to the study, but noted that 64 per cent of Muslim respondents and pupils with an African background reject the idea that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle.

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berserker
berserker
6 years ago

Clearly a Russian conspiracy 🙂

Orion
Orion
6 years ago

More like 2 in 3!

InfidelCrusader
InfidelCrusader
6 years ago
Reply to  Orion

I suspect that the actual number is more like 9 out of 10. The 10th ones know enough to keep their mouths shut and not draw the ire of the other 9.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

I wonder how these statistics compare to those in Britain and Germany…there also seems to be no shortage of radicals there as well.

WadeBaker
WadeBaker
6 years ago

That’s just the third that will admit it.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

As more Muslims come in, the percentages go up exponentially and more terror especially when they get Sharia.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Quran and its bigoted verses . Few examples are below
1- Islam is the only true religion. Other religions are false [Quran 3:85]
2- Islam will prevail over other religions [Quran 48:28]
3- Non-muslims are dirty, unclean (najis) [Quran 9:28]
4- Fight those who do not believe in Islam, Muhammad or day of judgement [Quran 9:29]

There are hundreds of such verses . So a question to muslims: Why do you object and whine so much when somebody criticized Isalm when your holy book insults, denigrates and humiliates non-muslims ? Why do you expect non-muslims to practice what muslims do NOT practice in the first place

Political Correctness Kills
Political Correctness Kills
6 years ago

When the Muslim population of any city or country grows that is when the violence, hate and terrorist attacks start. Just look at France.

Canada is going in the same direction.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

When you do not monitor mosques and do not have real experts who understand Islam only then this should come as surprise.

Left/liberal/RINO/Feminazi Loons including Media, college admins, politicians are funded by lobbyists working for saudi/OIC to help advance their agenda of islamisation of EU/America.

Left/Liberal/Feminazi’s are leading the destruction of western societies and they are paying the price too http://tinyurl.com/jxczqnr

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

How is it even possible to monitor thousands of mosques — all day long?

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

CCT, spy camera ! when FBI/NSA can monitor phone of 320 million what is the big deal ?

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Who’s going to watch thousands of hours of video a year? You trust the F-I-B? Or the N-A-S?

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Lot of unemployed youths ready to do for minimum wage !

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Ever wonder why the “moderate muslimes” never express outrage when members of their own ilk practice jihad? As Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”

arishsahani
arishsahani
6 years ago

To wedge Jihad following thing needed.
1.We need one, who could be jihadi.. islam supply line is limit less.
2. WE need who are willing to become jihadi , uneducated fools are unlimited ..
3. we need funding for this, unlimited .. many islamic antlions behind this
4. we need teachers ..every muslim Mulla is equipped with this goal
5. we need media support to fool people . we have many
6. we need free system to expand this western science free system of email u tube supports them .

gfmucci
gfmucci
6 years ago

Islam is a religious excuse to sanction bad behavior.

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
6 years ago

Bill Maher on Terror Attacks : I Never hear ‘Merry Christmas,’ only ‘Allahu Akbar’.

christian vidal
christian vidal
6 years ago

How utterly strong they despise and hate us, only the stupid leftists that are daily

brainwashed by the enemedia and the educational system cannot understand this

common sense, so ban all muzzies from the US shut down all mosques for ever. Don’t

forget when the twin towers collapsed 1 billion of their kind were dancing and chanting in

the streets worldwide. They are our deadest enemies since the inception. Their only

goal is the erasement of the western and jewish civilizations!

Jerry Dobson
Jerry Dobson
6 years ago

That Pew poll is ten years old. I’m sure the percentage is much higher now. Especially when you factor in the percentage of Muslims who are savvy enough to lie about their true beliefs.

Robinske2
Robinske2
6 years ago
Reply to  Jerry Dobson

True- I suspect the real % is higher. The pollster is depending on them to tell the truth, and admitting you believe suicide bombings are justified would be grounds to expel a person out of the country.

Robinske2
Robinske2
6 years ago

“But it is ultimately only a very small proportion: radical absolutism
is far from being a majority amongst Muslims!” the sociologist emphasized.”

It is certainly NOT good news that between 20-30% of Muslims under 30 believe suicide bombings are justified. In America, that would likely be well over 100,000 people and likely much higher. I’d be willing to bet that if the Christians under 30 were polled if they felt suicide bombings were Justified it’d be near 0. Also, who is teaching these young Muslims? Are there any versus in Koran that can be used to teach young Muslims murder is not justified? I believe the phrase “Thou shalt not kill” does not appear in the Koran. I’ve never read the whole Koran, but I do not believe the word love appears and certainly not “love your enemies” or “turn the other cheek”.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

About the same percent as those who believe the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth. Doesn’t look good 🙁

spudmans1
spudmans1
6 years ago

European civil wars are imminent as that is the only solution. Free democracies/Christianity cannot co-exist with islam. It is either one or the other.and that is the way it is. You can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig. The USA will be drug into it both domestically & internationally. We already are internationally and it is just a matter of time until the fighting starts up here.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

The sun sets in a muddy pool at the end of the day — quranic fact.

Iftikhar Ahmad
Iftikhar Ahmad
6 years ago

God has created diverse human beings to live in this tiny global village of one family. Creation by its very nature is diverse with different species, different communities, different cultures and languages. These differences represent the beauty and wonder but diversity is sometimes not fully appreciated, resulting in all sorts of clashes. The British society and Establishment must learn to respect and accommodate others, as if in a family.

Multiculturalism is not about integration but about cultural plurality. It is not about separation but about respect and the deepening awareness of Unity in Diversity. Each culture will maintain its own intrinsic value and at the same time would be expected to contribute to the benefit of the whole society. Multiculturalism can accommodate diversity of all kinds – cultural, philosophical and religious – so that we can create a world without conflict and strife. Britain can assume the role of accommodation and concern for all peoples, for our planet and indeed for our survival. Multi-culturalism is even more important and crucial after 9/11 and 7/7. Muslim youths are also likely to feel alienated by a focus on shared Brutishness, rather than multicultural diversity. Rather than promoting a single British “us” teaching should acknowledge that “us” can be diverse and plural. Children should be encouraged to explore differences in appearance, history and religion to reduce social and educational fears.

Islam is the fastest growing faith in Britain. Hundreds and thousands of Brits are reverting to Islam. By the middle of this century, over half of Brits would be Muslims.

“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of
its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to
possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which
can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him – the wonderful man
and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the
Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the
dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems
in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.” [G.B. Shaw, THE GENUINE ISLAM, Vol.
1, No. 81936.]
IA
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

Grant Woodside
Grant Woodside
6 years ago
Reply to  Iftikhar Ahmad

Are predominantly Islamic nations inclusive ?
Accepting of the culture and laws of others ?
Would a woman in Saudi Arabia
Be permitted to walk around town
With her hair uncovered wearing shorts for example?
I have read not, if I am incorrect
Please supply some proof
Not just words

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Iftikhar Ahmad

“The British society and Establishment must learn to respect and accommodate others, as if in a family”. Then why does islam not respect and accommodate others in this alleged “family”?
“Each culture will maintain its own intrinsic value and at the same time would be expected to contribute to the benefit of the whole society”. How is your statement comparable with the qur’an’s “Quran (2:193) – “And fight them until fitna is no more, and religion be only for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers.” The key phrase here is to fight until “religion be only for Allah”.
“in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness” justify that with this from the qur’an “Quran (9:29) – “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued”.
Your fiction and literary braying are not substantiated by the qur’an and how islam is seen as practiced today. You are not an honest person, you are a brainwashed propagandist.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

The other 2/3’s of muslums were smart enough to lie to the kafir al najjis.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

According to Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus (1932 – 2007), a Pakistani born American Muslim, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Cortland, 75% of new Muslim converts in the US leave Islam within a few years. [14] This perception was confirmed by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad who wrote on January 13, 2010, “We are constantly being told that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States. We are also being told that the Muslim population is anywhere from 2 million, to six million and that a third of them are converts. That would put the number of converts from around 700,000 to 2,000,000. However, I’m not sure if those numbers are accurate because many converts are leaving Islam, and or never even begin to practice Islam in any appreciable way other than take their shahaadah (declaration of conversion), and you don’t see anywhere near those numbers reflected in the nation’s masaajid [mosques]. Nor do you see too much evidence that people who became Muslim say, 20 years ago have stayed in the religion, raised their children upon it and started a second generation, or even third generation. The overall estimates of the Muslim population may be accurate, but the stated percentage of converts does not seem reflected on the ground. In almost every major city in America except for maybe Philadelphia and to a certain extent, Atlanta, you don’t see too many large communities of converts to Islam. You see a lot of young people who are recent converts and that’s great but where are the thousands upon thousands of Muslims who converted ten years ago? Twenty years ago? Thirty years ago? Where are their children, their grandchildren? We need to re-evaluate the statistics that are being fed to us, because it has lolled many of us into a false sense of accomplishment to the point where we brag about how well Islam is doing amongst converts in America while in reality, it seems converts, by and large, are not faring that well and that the largest concentrations of Muslim men in America are those in our nation’s prisons. When I used to volunteer at Folsom prison, there would be hundreds of male converts in attendance, and I have never seen hundreds of male converts at any Masjid anywhere in California.”[15]

Further evidence of converts leaving Islam comes from a London based think tank. The British journal The New Statesman cites Usama Hasan, a part-time Imam and a senior researcher at the counter extremism think-tank, the Quilliam Foundation, as saying, “Many converts leave the faith. We don’t have exact statistics but some stats say 50 per cent will leave within a few years.”[16]

Roughly two-thirds (65%) of adult Muslims in the U.S. were born elsewhere. A relatively large proportion of Muslim immigrants are from Arab countries, but many also come from Pakistan and other South Asian countries. Among native-born Muslims, roughly half are African American (20% of U.S. Muslims overall), many of whom are converts to Islam.[17]

According to Ahmed Nassef, the co-founder and editor in chief of MuslimWakeUp.com, less than 7 percent of American Muslims attend mosque regularly, compared with 38 percent of American Christians who attend church weekly.[18]

Contrary to Islamic claims, the fastest growing belief groups in the United States are the non-religious. The American Religious Identification Surveys [ARIS] of 1990 and 2000 show that the percent of change for Islam was +109%.The percent of change, however, for Nonreligious/Secular was +110%; Native American Religion +119%; Buddhism +170%; Baha’i +200%; Hinduism +237%; New Age +240%; Sikhism +338%, and Deism +717% were all higher.[19]

The American Religious Identification Survey [ARIS] gave Non-Religious groups the largest gain in terms of absolute numbers – 14,300,000 (8.4% of the population) to 29,400,000 (14.1% of the population) for the period 1990 to 2001 in the USA.

In the period from 2001 to 2008, Americans with no religion were the fastest growing segment.[20] There were sharp increases in the number of non-denominational Christians and those claiming no religious affiliation (Nones). To quote the report from ARIS’ webspage, “In addition, shifts in religious identification since 1990 have resulted in the ranks of the Nones swelling by 67 percent (2.2 million persons) and those in the conservative, non-denominational Generic Christian tradition growing by 51 percent (1.8 million). Put another way, the percentage of self-proclaimed Nones increased from 11 percent to 16 percent of this cohort between 1990 and 2008. This increase is surprising since Americans have historically increased their religious identification between early adulthood and their mid-40s, as they marry, have children, and become settled in their communities.”[21]

The true rate of Muslim apostasy in the United States is difficult to assess for the obvious reason that though there are no laws prohibiting it in the United States, social ostracism, feelings of shame, and simple physical fear of reprisals even in the West, all conspire to make the apostate keep his own counsel. For example, the situation in New York City is bad enough for Fred Farrokh, executive director of the Jesus for Muslims Network to open a refuge center for Christian converts. Raised Muslim, he is now a Christian, and author of Jailbreak: A Christian’s Guide to Praying for the Muslim World.[22].

Here is the ever sober Pew Research Center’s assessment on 27 January, 2011: “Statistical data on conversion to and from Islam are scarce. What little information is available suggests that there is no substantial net gain or loss in the number of Muslims through conversion globally; the number of people who become Muslims through conversion seems to be roughly equal to the number of Muslims who leave the faith. As a result, this report does not include any estimated future rate of conversions as a direct factor in the projections of Muslim population growth.”[23]

What are the difficulties in estimating conversions to and from Islam? “There are a number of reasons why reliable data on conversions are hard to come by. Some national censuses ask people about their religion, but they do not directly ask whether people have converted to their present faith. A few cross-national surveys do contain questions about religious switching, but even in those surveys, it is difficult to assess whether more people leave Islam than enter the faith. In some countries, legal and social consequences make conversion difficult, and survey respondents may be reluctant to speak honestly about the topic. Additionally, for many Muslims, Islam is not just a religion but an ethnic or cultural identity that does not depend on whether a person actively practices the faith. This means that even nonpracticing or secular Muslims may still consider themselves, and be viewed by their neighbors, as Muslims.”[24]

However, some more recent research suggests the Pew Research Centers assessments are incorrect, and that there are greater conversions from Islam to Christianity, or other religions, and even atheism, than have been reported. Admittedly much of this research has been conducted by Christian organizations but, as I shall show, at least some of these Christian organizations have developed and used a sophisticated methodology which promises some more objective facts and figures than mere crude propaganda.

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