“In 2013, Ruud Koopmans published the results of a pan-European study, based on interviews with 9,000 European Muslims, which showed large numbers of European Muslims believe in many of the ideas championed by the Islamic State: a return to the roots of Islam, the conviction that religious (Koranic) law stands above all secular laws; a hatred of Jews and homosexuals; and a view of the West as the enemy of Islam. ... More recently, in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the BBC surveyed 1,000 British Muslims and found that 24 percent consider ‘violence against those who publish images of the Prophet’ is justified. Asked whether ‘Muslim clerics preaching that violence against the West can be justified are out of touch with mainstream Muslim opinion,’ 45 percent disagreed. Put another way, nearly half of British Muslims stand comfortably by those clerics who justify violence against the West. ... And that’s just in the U.K. Sadly, one can no longer pass these views off as those of a ‘small minority’ of Europe’s Muslims. Across Western Europe, Koopmans’ study determined, ‘Two-thirds of the Muslims interviewed say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live. Three quarters of the respondents hold the opinion that there is only one legitimate interpretation of the Koran.’ ... Moreover, 56 percent of Belgian and 64 percent of Austrian Muslims responding to Koopmans’ survey in 2008 agreed that “Jews cannot be trusted,” and indications are strong that Muslim attitudes towards Jews have only worsened. Indeed, with the targeted killings of Jews in Brussels, Paris, and Copenhagen over the past year, Muslim hate towards Jews in Europe has now reached a crisis. Clearly, we are watching trends that stretch across all of Europe. The issue here is one of trends, and these trends, which involve hundreds of thousands of radical, fundamentalist Muslims, paint a deeply disturbing picture.” “Radicalization of Europe’s Muslims,” Breitbart.com, Mar. 23, 2015 Comments are closed.
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