More than half of young Muslims in France under 25 put Sharia law above the state. Valeurs reports.
It is noted that 57 percent of young Muslims would prefer to live according to religious laws. This figure has grown by 10 percent compared to 2016. Among Catholics, only 15 percent prioritized this way.
The views of Muslims and Catholics on the possibility of showing cartoons of religious figures in schools were divided. Among Muslims, only a third allowed this, while among Christians, 80 percent. In addition, 81 percent of adherents of Islam are in favor of the introduction of separate “women's watches” in swimming pools, among Catholics and atheists about 20 percent want it. In addition, 82 percent of Muslims want to learn Arabic in schools, which is supported by 18 percent of Catholics.
According to experts from the Ifop Institute of Public Opinion, the study showed that a significant part of Muslim youth share common values with Islamists. In total, there are 5.7 million adherents of Islam in France (about 9 percent of the total population).
At the end of October, a series of armed attacks took place in France amid the conflict between President Emmanuel Macron and Muslim communities. In particular, on October 29, in Nice, in the Church of Notre Dame de Nys, a knife attack was carried out by a native of Tunisia, Ibrahim al-Awisawi. The attack killed three people, while two of the victims had their throats cut. The attacker was wounded by the police during the arrest and was hospitalized. The previously unknown group “Al-Mahdi in the south of Tunisia” claimed responsibility for the incident.
The attack occurred 13 days after the beheading of a teacher in a suburb of Paris. The teacher Samuel Pati was watched by the college, killed and beheaded by 18-year-old Chechen Abdulakh Anzorov, who was later shot by the police. The reason for the murder was the teacher's demonstration of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the classroom at school.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the murder of the teacher a terrorist attack. According to him, Pati died for “teaching children freedom of speech, freedom to believe or not to believe,” the head of state also said about the “crisis of Islam.”
