January 27, 2016 Atlantico: What can we take away from this poll; in what context was it carried out? Jérôme Fourquet : We see that the state of opinion regarding the question of welcoming refugees in France has remained stable, compared with a previous poll carried out the week after the Paris attacks. Since April…
January 31, 2016 A survey gauging racist sentiment polled the French on how they would react if their children married Muslims and whether they think that there are too many Jews in France. The results have turned out to be shocking. It was conducted over the course of 18 months by Ipsos which asked 1,000…
Press coverage of the Cologne sexual assaults and their aftermath has focused above all on the perceptions and fears of the ethnically German majority population. The past weeks have been marked by a frantic discussion about tightening asylum legislation as well as the laws governing sexual offences, by growing alarmism about the continuing arrival of…
PARIS — The French Culture Ministry ruled Wednesday that a new documentary film on Islamic radicals was unsuitable for minors, saying that it offered images of violence that were “sometimes unbearable” and interviews with members of Al Qaeda and other extremist figures that provided a platform for propaganda. The documentary, “Salafistes,” will also be accompanied…
(RNS) Rummana Hussain was one of those children whose Muslim parents envisioned her in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. Instead, she became a metro editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, where she covers criminal courts and remains the only Muslim member of the editorial staff. She knows “a couple” more…
