(European Conservative) A recent Ifop survey for the magazine Écran de veille, published on Tuesday, November 18, highlights a strong Islamist appeal among the younger Muslim generation in France. The study spans more than 60 pages and shows that since 1989, both strict religious practice and sympathy for radical forms of Islam have significantly grown among young French Muslims.
In the past 40 years, the proportion of Muslims in the French population has risen from 0.5% to 7%, while the share of Catholics has fallen from 83% to 43%. Islam is now the second-largest religion in the country, ahead of Protestantism (4%). This demographic rise goes hand in hand with a marked increase in religiosity: 80% of Muslims in France describe themselves as religious, and nearly two-thirds say they pray daily, compared to a national average of 18%.
