French Poll: HUGE Percent of Adults Say Islam is Incompatible with Their Society

A recent poll shows that the French are coming to the conclusion that a resolution of this conflict is not possible.

A new Ipsos poll finds that 61 percent of adults say Islam is incompatible with French society, compared to just 17 percent who say the same about Judaism and 6 percent who believe Catholicism is incompatible with French society.

The number of those who believe Islam is incompatible is trending upwards and has jumped 8 points since peaking in January 2015, when 47 percent of Frenchmen said Islam is compatible with French society.

What this is telling us is that the more the French encounter Islamic traditions and practices, the more they conclude that this is not going to work. What they have in these Muslim immigrants are not a group of people who appreciate French culture and wish to assimilate into it, but the precise opposite. The French then increasingly believe that they are in a battle for the soul of their nation initiated by those who are intent on fundamentally changing French culture and law.

Considering something just a simple as the way people dress has caused a stir:

The poll found that 77 percent of Frenchmen want the burkini banned in public, and 79 percent want headscarves banned on university campuses.

This whole matter has had a profound impact on the political landscape in France.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has tried to capitalize on rising anti-Islam sentiments among the French people, calling the upcoming election a “choice of civilization.”

Le Pen has waged a public campaign against what she calls the “two totalitarianisms” of globalization and Islamic fundamentalism.

Le Pen’s position is one that the French are increasingly coming to embrace. As the French do so, it is likely that those concerns and resulting actions will not be confined to just France.

Take a look at some estimates for France’s Muslim demographic future:

Criticizing the limited data of this study, Michèle Tribalat, a French demographer, published some personal conclusions in Atlántico, a news website. First, Tribalat expressed her regrets “not to have the population figures of persons of foreign origin for two generations”. But, she said, it is not so difficult to compile it one’s self.

“If we add the two generations (immigrants and children of immigrants), this gives a total of 13.5 million, or 20.4% of the population. Thus, we have slightly more than one inhabitant out of five of foreign origin, across two generations, in 2015”.

Asked by Gatestone how she came to the 13.5 million figure, she replied:

“Very simple. I added the 2015 migrant population (6.2 million) to the Insee’s 7.3 million children of immigrants, and it came to 13.5 million.”

In her Atlántico article, Tribalat maintains that more important than the 2015 data picture, is the growth-rate that led to the 2015 figure. Tribalat calculated her own estimates of this growth, with starting points in the years 1986, 1999 and 2011, coming up with figures of a stunningly fast growth for the number of migrants over two generations: the 13.2 million migrants of 2015 (20.5%; 300,000 that are “missing” are from French overseas territories), were 12.1 million four years earlier and 9.8 million in 1999. In other words, 19.2% in 2011 and 16.8% in 1999. The population of French persons of foreign origin would therefore have increased, when looking at two generations, by 9% between 2011 and 2015 alone.

For the same period, French children born in France to parents born in France increased by only 2.6%, writes Tribalat.

Consequently, France’s population is increasing significantly only because of immigration. But which immigration? Christian or Muslim? Tribalat continues:

“I showed that the annual average rate of increase of immigrants was almost zero between 1975 and 1999. But it is not the same story from 1999-2015. … The population of sub-Saharan origin is the one that grows more quickly. In four years (2011-2015), looking at two-generations (immigrants and children of immigrants), the sub-Saharan population seems to have increased by 43%. This population is extremely young. In 2015, 80% of the children of sub-Saharan immigrants are under 25 years of age”. (Author’s emphasis)

These conclusions are confirmed by another Insee study, “Demography of the descendants of immigrants” (Démographie des descendants d’immigrés), published in 2014.

“The Turkish and sub-Saharan African population is growing at an extremely rapid rate (which could lead to a doubling in less than 10 years if this continues)…. The total fertility rate of women born in Turkey is approximately 3, as it is for women born in sub-Saharan Africa. It is closer to 3.5 for women born in North Africa, while it is only 2 for women born in Europe, especially in France.”

In other words, if the Muslim population of France can be estimated at around 6 million today, it could grow to 12 million by 2020-2025.

This figure does even not take into consideration the Muslim population that immigrated to France from North Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s. There are a few million of them — nobody knows how many exactly. They became French very early, and for demographers, their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are not regarded as immigrants anymore. These Muslims are, rather, integrated into statistics as French citizens born of French parents. They are Muslim, but under the statistics radar.

France’s Muslim population could quickly grow to close to 15-17 million, but no one can know precisely unless the law prohibiting the official collection of ethnic data is changed.

Source: Daily Caller, Gatestone

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