“27% of the French Muslims claimed the ideology of the Islamic State”.

An original translation by Ava Lon

From this French language news site:

Muslims: CSA [Superior Council of Audiovisual] investigates case against Ivan Rioufol of Figaro

by Magazine Marianne
April 26, 2017

Ivan Rioufol, an editorialist for Le Figaro, affirmed on April 21 on CNews that “27% of French Muslims claimed the ideology of the Islamic State”.

The CSA said on Tuesday (April 25th) that it had opened a file on the remarks by Ivan Rioufol, an editorialist for Le Figaro, made on CNews last Friday. As a guest on the show “L’heure des pros”, presented by Pascal Praud, the polemicist quoted a poll from the Institut Montaigne demonstrating — according to him — that “27% of French Muslims claimed the ideology of the” Islamic State, and 50% of the young Muslims of the suburban neighborhoods.” The audiovisual authority has received about 40 reports, as revealed by Buzzfeed, while the replay of the show is not available on the CNews website.

At AFP, Ivan Rioufol denounces an “intimidation” that would be “exploited by a religious minority”. “To say that 50% of young Muslims have a practice of Islam” that is fundamentalist “and” adopted a system of values clearly opposed to the values of the Republic “is a fact noted in this study of the Montaigne Institute,” he affirms. “To bring it closer to the ideology of the Islamic State that applies sharia is a matter of my freedom to comment.”

In fact, Ivan Rioufol did indeed benefit to a large extent from his “freedom of comment”. The poll he quoted on CNews, was conducted by Ifop on behalf of the very liberal Institut Montaigne, and was published in September 2016 by the Sunday Journal. It divides the Muslim population living in France into three categories: 46% are “secularized”, totally secular; 25% have “Islamic pride”, being defined above all as Muslim and proud of the public expression of their religion; and 28% of the “Ultras” living in breach of republican values, polled in favor of the wearing of niqab or burqa and polygamy. The latter group is overrepresented among young people, as 50% of Muslims under 25 years of age are members of the group, according to the study.

It is thus to these 28% of Muslims that Ivan Rioufol reproaches with claim “of the ideology of the Islamic State”. Yet, the panel of respondents “was not questioned on Daesh,” said the Institut Montaigne on Twitter on Tuesday. “In no case can the findings of our inquiry feed your comments,” the think tank added to the attention of the editorial writer.

Translation of Twitter messages:

Institute Montaigne: @ivanrioufol You said that 50% of the young people in the cities cling to the ideology of the Islamic State

Institute Montaigne: @ivanrioufol In any case, the conclusions of our investigation cannot support your remarks.

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3 Replies to ““27% of the French Muslims claimed the ideology of the Islamic State”.”

  1. This is no surprise every regular reader of the blog know that the so called radicals are the people who are practicing true Islam and the very rare true moderate Moslem is the true radical. France is on the edge of disintegration due to their far leftists leaders and the anti civilization policies they have been pushing on France and the rest of Europe. I don’t care who wins the Presidential election France is headed for a massive civil war, the question is who will the French government support in the fighting. The Native French, le Pen or the Moslems, Macron.

    This is waht is at stake in the election, all French voters need to remember this. They also need to understand that the rest of the radical left governments in Europe will work to support the Moslems in France during the civil war and that a French civil war will probably trigger civil wars in most if not all Western European nations. Will France remain France or will it become a colony of the new Ottoman Empire?

    • Agreed. France will likely be the flash point for whatever large-scale hostilities are due to happen on The Continent. The truly scary part is that France has nuclear weapons which must never be allowed to fall into Islamic hands. Should the EU intervene on behalf of immigrant Muslims, it will pose a serious dilemma for America and Canada. Both the delivery (i.e., missile) technology and the warheads must be removed.