{"id":34463,"date":"2006-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2006\/08\/10\/in-great-britain-muslims-worry-about-islamic-extremism\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T01:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T06:13:59","slug":"in-great-britain-muslims-worry-about-islamic-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2006\/08\/10\/in-great-britain-muslims-worry-about-islamic-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"In Great Britain, Muslims Worry About Islamic Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px;border: 1px solid #666\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/legacy\/1010-1.gif\" alt=\"Figure\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even before today&#8217;s disclosure that authorities in England had thwarted a plot by home grown terrorists to blow up airplanes headed for the United States, there was a high level of concern about Islamic extremism in Great Britain\u2014not just among the full population, but among Muslims living there as well.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pew Global Attitudes Project survey conducted this spring found 43% of British Muslims &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about the rise of Islamic extremism among Muslims living in that country. That&#8217;s twice the proportion that expressed similar fears in Spain (21%) and significantly more than in Germany (23%) or France (26%).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Great Britain, Muslim worries about Islamic extremism were broadly shared by the general public, which expressed more concern in 2006 than it did in a comparable survey conducted in spring 2005, prior to the London subway bombings on July 7, 2005.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pew survey found that British Muslims have a stronger Islamic identity than do Muslims elsewhere in Europe. Fully eight-in-ten (81%) British Muslims think of themselves as Muslims first rather than as British. In France just 46% consider themselves as Muslims first. Primary identification as Muslim is higher in Spain (69%) and Germany (66%) &#8211; but still well below what it is in Britain.<\/p>\n\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px;border: 1px solid #666\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/legacy\/1010-2.gif\" alt=\"Figure\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly, a greater number of British Muslims (15%) said they see a struggle between moderates and fundamentalists in their country and sympathize with the fundamentalists. Just 6% of French Muslims identified with fundamentalists in France, 7% in Germany and 4% in Spain. However, Muslims in Britain were not more apt than those elsewhere in Europe to say that many or most Muslims in their country supported extremists such as al Qaeda. Some 12% of British Muslims expressed this view while about equal numbers in France (9%), Germany (12%) and Spain (12%) made such reports.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns Pre-Date Airplane 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