France: One Third of Young People Feel Hostility to Muslims

...The figures are frightening. According to an Opinion-Way study, more than a third of 18-24-year-olds feel antipathy towards Muslims, which is 10 times more than for Catholics or Jews. Young people are thus more virulent than the general average of the 1000 people polled. Only 4% of them believe in the tolerance of the Muslim religion and 40% consider it to be sectarian.

Islam isn’t the only one that gets it. Thus, more than half of 18-24-year-olds consider Jews “closer to Israel than to France”. Around 43% define them as a “group withdrawn into itself”. Finally, 20% judge that “their influence of society is too great.”