Overview
- Le Journal du Dimanche published new Ifop findings on November 23 assessing French Muslims’ attitudes toward Islamism and related movements.
- The poll reports about one in four respondents expressing sympathy for the Muslim Brotherhood, 33% for at least one Islamist current, and 38% approving some Islamist positions.
- Results highlight sharper conservatism among younger respondents, with 59% favoring application of sharia and only 12% of 15–24 year-olds backing a modernization of Islam compared with 41% in 1998.
- Islamologist Razika Adnani challenges the survey’s terminology and reliability, arguing key labels such as “frérisme” and “islamisme” were unclear to respondents, while asserting the Muslim Brotherhood is winning the political battle.
- France’s CFCM rejects the survey’s framing as an amalgam of Islam and Islamism, calling the results islamophobic and warning they could endanger Muslims and their places of worship.