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France: One-third of young Muslims hold “fundamentalist” religious views

Mar 22, 2017 9:16 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A large survey of 7000 students, aged 14-16 by the National Centre for Scientific Research, has found that a third of French Muslim youth had “fundamental religious views.” To clarify what “fundamental religious views” mean: 32 percent of them did not fully condemn the jihadist bloodbath at the Charlie Hebdo offices for the sharia crime of blasphemy, or the massacre at the Hyper Cacher grocery store shortly thereafter.

This finding is a troubling breakaway from the usual claim that only around 10 percent of Muslims globally ascribe to violent jihad. Right after the Charlie Hebdo attack, the Daily Beast proclaimed that 12 percent of the world’s Muslims support jihad terrorism. The report attacked “pundit/comedian” Bill Maher’s comment:

“I know most Muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this. But here’s the important point: Hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this. They applaud an attack like this.”

The ludicrous Daily Beast report went on to say:

“Just as in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other faiths, there are fanatics, conservatives, moderates, progressives, and far-left-progressives in the Muslim world.”

The folly of such false comparisons is glaring. Jews, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists have not murdered 11 million of their coreligionists since 1948. They don’t behead or stone people or chop off their hands for theft. They don’t invoke religious texts to justify the mass rape of infidel women. They don’t capture sex slaves and brutalize them, outline elaborate plans to sabotage Western civilization from within and replace its free societies with the sharia, endeavor to destroy Israel, seek global conquest, preach hatred and incite violence from places of worship, etc. While all Muslims certainly do not engage in such heinous activity, it cannot be denied that Islamic supremacists and jihadists have declared war on the world.

Further food for thought: right before Christmas, a Policy Exchange Poll out of the UK showed that half of all Muslims, if they knew someone with Islamic State links, would not report this fact to police.

“Study: Third of France’s Young Muslims Hold Fundamentalist Religious Views”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, March 12, 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.”…..

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Filed Under: "Tiny Minority of Extremists", Featured, France, free speech Tagged With: Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher, Policy Exchange Poll, The National Centre for Scientific Research


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  1. RichardL says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 9:23 am

    France is an interesting case: about 50% of Muslims are hardcore islamists and the other 50% don’t give a toss and drink and eat pork (for me the acid test). My personal observation is that the cultural Muslims are vastly more affluent than the ghetto islamists.

    • EmHotep says

      Mar 22, 2017 at 9:35 am

      10 % strong and organised “practising” muslims is enough to build sharia, it’s a matter of time.

      • Pal says

        Mar 22, 2017 at 9:41 am

        Correct.
        Same with the Communists.
        And the Nazis.

      • gary says

        Mar 22, 2017 at 10:32 am

        They have no choice. They are slaves to Islam. To deny Islam is to risk death by “Honor Killings” because after all… “Allah wills it.”

        Islam: It seeks to impose their “religion” onto others and to establish sharia governance as a system of laws for states, countries, …..the world.

        ….and some day, The King of Kings will destroy Islam…. Wipe it off the face of the earth – FOREVER!

    • Angemon says

      Mar 22, 2017 at 1:51 pm

      “ and the other 50% don’t give a toss and drink and eat pork (for me the acid test).”

      Not that’ll stop them from becoming “radicalized” in the future.

      • Infidel001 says

        Mar 22, 2017 at 6:13 pm

        Especially given the O.I.C/muslim brotherhood push to make it so. Ironically both the O.I.C and the muslim brotherhood are respected in most mainstream circles in the western world. I’m at a loss as to how and why that is, but nothing surprises me anymore in the west. Waging jihad with a suit and tie seems to completely fool the western world, and it’s a sight to behold.

    • Mirren10 says

      Mar 22, 2017 at 2:39 pm

      RichardL says

      ” … the other 50% don’t give a toss and drink and eat pork (for me the acid test)”

      Many jihadists do unislamic things. They can wipe out all their sins in that line by murdering a few kuffar. Eating pork and drinking doesn’t mean zilch.

    • martin says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 7:13 am

      The 50% that you say don’t give a t, will also be doing their islamic warfare lying.

    • Frank says

      Mar 23, 2017 at 10:20 pm

      Young or old ,they all come from the same bowl of shit. Can somebody flush the toilet please ?

  2. John A. Marre says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 9:29 am

    Even if Marine Le Pen is elected, the Muslims already in France are reproducing more rapidly than the French. The only thing that will save France and the rest of the world is if the Muslims lose their religious fervor and become materialistic hedonists like everyone else.

  3. EmHotep says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 9:31 am

    Erdogan News;

    After torturing us, he is threatening EU with his islamic terrorist…

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-referendum-europe-idUSKBN16T13E

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-germany-netherlands-warning-europeans-not-walk-safely-a7642941.html

  4. Jaladhi says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 9:35 am

    So what’s so surprising! They are taught their real religion in their osques and then we expect that they will reject the religion just because they are born in France. This is the utter stupidity that the West is wallowing in.

    What the West calls “fundamentalist”, “Islamist” “radical”, etc , are all the same Islam Muslims have been following for last 1400 years and its not going to change contrary to the hopes of the western leaders of teaching Muslims democracy, multiculturalism, etc, etc,. Muslims are Muslims and nothing will change them. They fill follow Quran and keep on killing us no matter where they live. We will call it terrorism and Muslims will call it their holy duty!

  5. kessler says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 10:59 am

    The number of French Muslims supporting Sharia blasphemy laws are much higher than that – obviously not everyone would answer truthfully in fear of being branded extremist and subjected to surveillance.
    I wish there was someone prominent with the guts of the old Chrlie Hebdo staff. For now, the Islamists won the war as people crawled into a hole rather than standing up to our free speech principles.
    Submission is defeat, but that’s exactly what happened. Thank God for Le Pen and her supporters – probably the last chance for the French – when the older generation is gone there are very few left which haven’t been indoctrinated with the leftist, self-defeating agenda.

  6. RodSerling says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 11:07 am

    The link to the Breitbart article doesn’t work.
    Try this:
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/21/study-third-muslim-france-fundamentalist/

  7. JayT says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Isn’t France the country that banned ketchup because its too much of a cultural infringement upon their own? So they will ban ketchup, but they won’t ban Islam for the same reason, hmm.

    The answer is probably from that old Van Damme movie Blood Sport where the bad guy would say “Ketchup not hit back”.

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    Mar 22, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    “…32 percent of [French Muslim Students]… did not fully condemn the jihadist bloodbath at the Charlie Hebdo offices for the sharia crime of blasphemy, or the massacre at the Hyper Cacher grocery store shortly thereafter… [and] a … Poll out of the UK showed that half of all Muslims, if they knew someone with Islamic State links, would not report this fact to police…”

    The Chickens have come home to roost; this time in Whitehall itself.

  9. harbidoll says

    Mar 23, 2017 at 6:34 am

    1 out of 5 has “inbreeding damage”.

  10. Dacritic says

    Mar 24, 2017 at 8:11 pm

    Fundamentalist is certainly the right word. I don’t really like the word “radical” because “radical” itself is a funny word that can have opposite meanings. Fundamentalist. That’s right.

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