Paris, November 28, 2025, by S.G. Kazolias.
Nearly half the Muslims in France, 15 and older, believe Islamic Sharia Law should be applied in the countries where they live, according to a study published in November by the French polling institute, IFOP.1 This adhesion to rigorous Islam is higher among those aged 15 to 24, that is to say, youth born in France of recent Muslim migration and holding French citizenship. The French model of integration does not work.2
Science also takes a back seat among 65% of the Muslims in France. The poll shows they believe religion is right about the creation of the world, which is over three times higher than other religions.
Further alarming, according to the study, is a full third of the Muslims in France show sympathy for an Islamist movement. If we take into account Quran’s council of taqiyyah, or dissimilation, to conceal their faith, this author believes the figures of radicalised Muslims in France are much higher.3
This process of “reislamization…is a strong identitarian reaffirmation,” writes IFOP’s François Kraus, “through the intensification of cultural practices, the rigidification of gender relations, and a growing adhesion to Islamist theses.”
With increased warnings from politicians across most of the political spectrum, military and police commanders, and scholars, that civil war in France is possible in the near future, some say probable, this poll does not reassure.
This tendency, far from fading with time, seems to the contrary to gorw stronger from generation to generation, led by youth more and more eager to affirm their Muslim identity against a French society they perceive as hostile. Ifop.
No Certain Numbers
The population of France in 2024 was 68.52 million. So, just how many Muslims are there? Nobody knows for sure. Racial and religious statistics are illegal and all figures are educated guesstimates. Most agree that only zero point five percent (0.5%) of the population in France was Muslim in 1985. All agree the number has grown exponentially since then, but few agree on how many they number today.
IFOP put the figure of Muslims in the general population at 7% while in 2017 the Pew Research Centre said there were 5.72 million (8.8%). French sociologist and anthropologist, François Héran, estimated in 2017 that they made up 10%, a figure reiterated by the French state run INSEE in 2023. The demographer Michèle Tribalat found that more than 80% of them have North African origins while the others hail from sub-Saharan Africa.
A 2016 study published by the IPSOS polling agency showed that the general French population believed Muslims made up 31% of the population. This is a sign of growing concern by the indigenous French that their civilisation was being threatened, that a “Great Replacement” was in progress.
More and more French voters see Islam as a civilizational threat to their way of life. Prior to Muslim immigration these past four decades, France believed migrants would continue to “assimilate” and become French culturally, as previous waves of European immigration had.
But this recent immigration has, it seems, overwhelmingly rejected the Greco-Roman civilisation and Judaeo-Christian society that welcomed them. How does this refusal to assimilate manifest itself? According to the study, 43% of the Muslims refuse at least one form of physical or eye contact with the other sex. Many families refuse to let a male doctor examine women, parents refuse to let their girls go to the swimming pool, 45% of females aged 15 to 24 wear the Islamic veil, three times more than in 2003 when only 16% did.4
A series of terror attacks in France in the name of Islam has further strengthened anti-immigrant opinion among ethnic French voters. A CSA poll (9/2025) shows 72% of the French want a referendum on immigration. An IFOP poll (10/2024) shows 67% don’t want any more migrants “because our values are too different and that poses problems for cohabitation..”
The huge increase in the number of Muslims in France is due to a higher birth rate among Muslims (3.3 children per woman while the rest of the population has an average 2 per woman), laws voted allowing migrants to bring in family members (spouse, children under 18) and the massive immigration, both legal and illegal, and nearly automatic regularisations (343,024 first issue residency permits in 2024 alone) and naturalisations of migrants over the past 40 years.
Using Threats of War against Russia to Prepare for War at Home
The June, 2023, countrywide riots by mostly Muslim youth were a wake up call for the French state. Caught completely off guard and unable to regain control for nearly a week, the threat of a bigger uprising which experts and politicians have been warning about for 20 years, became a possible reality. Police stations were burned, public buildings ransacked, and looting was widespread.
The Gendarmerie and the Army are exploiting the possibility of war to request increased funding. France could be at war in the next 3 or 4 years, Chief of staff, General Fabien Mandon, told the National Assembly in November. He said French engagement in eastern Europe could spark sabotage and demonstrations in France.
General Mandon created a scandal when he seemed to tell French mayors gathered in a yearly Paris Congress that they should prepare their populations to see their children killed in a war. “If our country loses its nerve because it is not ready to lose its children,…to suffer economically because priority will be given to defense production, then we are at risk.”
This year, Gendarmerie General Hubert Bonneau, warned his subordinates of the “possibility of an armed conflict on French territory.” In the case of French military action in eastern Europe, “I don’t believe all our fellow citizens would agree with this sort of engagement,” he told the Senate in October.
Although the Gendarmerie carries out police actions, they are part of the French military and are trained soldiers. It would be there job to put down an insurrection and/or restore order and protect the government should things get out of hand.
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15% believe Sharia should be applied integrally wherever they are, and 31% in part in order to adapt to the country where they live. 44% say they privilege Sharia Law above the laws of the French Republic which is 16 points higher than in 1995. ↩︎
33% of Muslims in France back radical Islam: 24% feel close to the Muslim Brotherhood, 9% to Salafism, and 3% say they like Jihadism. ↩︎
This from Britannica:– Scriptural authority for taqiyyah is derived from two statements in the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam. The 28th verse of the third sura (chapter) says that, out of fear of Allah (God), believers should not show preference in friendship to unbelievers “unless to safeguard yourselves against them.” The 16th sura was revealed (according to tradition) to ease the conscience of ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, a devout follower of the Prophet Muhammad, who renounced his faith under torture and threat of death. Verse 106 of this sura proclaims that if a Muslim who is forced to deny his religion is nevertheless a true believer who feels “the peace of faith” in his heart, he will not suffer great punishment (16:106). ↩︎- In 2004, a law was passed banning wearing any visible religious symbols in public buildings such as schools and town halls. This meant the Islamic veil was no longer allowed in schools, universities and government facilities. A national debate in 2010 led to the banning of all full face coverings such as Niqab and Burqa in any open, public space: parks, streets… The question of the Islamic veil hit the front pages in 1989 when schoolgirls, influenced by Islamists, wore it to school and were turned away. ↩︎
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