---
"title": "No Anti-Muslim Backlash in France"
"description": "That's the share of the French public that now judges immigration into France from the Middle East and North Africa to be a good thing -- an increase over the 53% who said so a year ago before the riots by Muslim youth."
"date": "2006-10-27"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2006/10/27/no-anti-muslim-backlash-in-france/"
---

# No Anti-Muslim Backlash in France

France shows no signs of a backlash in response to last year’s riots among Muslim youth in a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey. In fact, a counter trend seems to have emerged with slightly more French people saying that immigration from the Middle East and North Africa is a good thing than did so a year ago. The French public is also more inclined this year to say that Muslims living in France want to adopt French customs — a view held by an overwhelming majority of Muslims in France. Nor do German and British publics express any increase in negative views of immigrants — although, unlike the French, they are not more welcoming to immigrants this year. Meanwhile, the Spanish public’s view toward immigrants has grown slightly more negative over the last year. [Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/pubs/50/the-french-muslim-connection)