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Germany: 50% of Muslims under the age of 40 have ‘Islamist’ attitudes

Apr 5, 2026 11:00 am By Robert Spencer11 Comments

We were told that Sharia-adherent Muslims and Islamic jihadis were a “tiny minority of extremists.” We were lied to.

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‘Societal time bomb’ – Explosive German police study finds that nearly 1 out of every 2 Muslims under 40 has ‘Islamist’ attitudes

Remix News, March 12, 2026:

A newly released study by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), nearly 50 percent of Muslims under the age of 40 in Germany hold “Islamist” views, with these Muslims expressing an attraction to Islamism, a preference for Sharia law over the German Basic Law, and harboring anti-Semitic prejudices.

The findings, described as “explosive in nature,” were featured in the latest edition of the “Motra Monitor.” The study reports that as of 2025, Muslims in Germany under the age of 40 (45.1 percent) hold “latent or manifestly Islamist attitudes.“…

Germany is far from the only country seeing the rise of Islamism within the populace. A sobering study from the prestigious polling service Ifop from last year shows that hardline views are growing amongst Muslims in France, including an emphasis on the laws of Islam being placed over those of the state, particularly among young Muslims. At the same time, Christianity is collapsing in France.

Among Muslims in general, 44 percent polled say they “respect the rules of Islam” as being more important “than respect for French laws.” For those aged 15-24, 57 percent believe the rules of Islam are more important than “respect for French laws.”

Some 38 percent of French Muslims approve of all or part of Islamist positions, doubling the figure of 19 percent in 1998, underlines Ifop.

Correspondingly, the share of Muslims who want Islam to modernize has fallen from 48 percent in 1998 to 21 percent today. When Ifop requested respondents to choose between the Civil Code and Sharia law on “an important subject in your family, such as ritual slaughter, marriage or inheritance,” 49 percent of Muslims chose to respect French laws, down from 62 percent in 1995. The consumption of alcohol among Muslim men has also fallen sharply, from 46 percent in 1989 to only 26 percent today.

Today, 33 percent of Muslims residing in France — French citizens or foreign nationals — feel sympathy for one of the Islamist movements, a figure that rises to 42 percent among young people. Within this population, 3 percent have sympathy for the most radical and bloody ideology, jihadism.

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Italy expels Muslim migrant imam who cited Qur’an as endorsement for marrying 9-year-old girls

Apr 7, 2026 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

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Imagine the embarrassment of Italian authorities when they discover that this imam was right, and that the Qur’an does sanction marriage to prepubescent girls (cf. 65:4). Will they expel all the imams in the country then? Why do Western authorities continue to insist that they know everything about Islam while actually knowing nothing, and to pretend that every Muslim who acts upon the Qur’an or teaches others to do so is an “extremist” who is misunderstanding and misinterpreting the religion’s core texts? How long will this delusion continue?

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Undercover Report Exposes Imam Offering Quranic Justification for Child Brides

by Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum, April 4, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Italy has expelled an imam of Pakistani origin who sparked massive outrage after he was filmed in an undercover investigation citing the Qur’an as an endorsement for marrying girls at the age of nine.

On April 2, the Italian daily Il Giornale reported that Paolo Sartori, the police commissioner of Brescia, known as Italy’s Islamic “capital,” ordered the deportation of Ali Kashif, who told a reporter for the TV program Fuori dal Coro that girls can be married after their first period.

Sartori examined footage filmed by Francesco Leone, a reporter from Channel 4, who posed as an Italian wanting to convert to Islam and seeking to know if the Muslim religion permits older men to marry child brides.

Based on evidence from the undercover investigation, the police commissioner determined that Kashif could be immediately expelled under Article 4, paragraph 3, of Italy’s Consolidated Law on Immigration. The law gives police the power to remove a foreigner who “is considered a threat to public order or the security of the State” or has been involved in sex-related crimes.

Brescia police also discovered that Kashif did not possess a valid residence permit to live in Italy and refused to issue him a new residence permit when the imam applied for the document.

Instead, Sartori ordered that Kashif be immediately escorted to Milan Malpensa Airport, where he was put on board the flight to Islamabad, with a stopover in Bangkok, accompanied by immigration officers….