Majority in Europe favor halt to immigration from mainly Muslim countries per Chatham House poll, Dec. 12, 2016-Jan. 11, 2017, 10,000 respondents to online poll. 59% say arrival of Muslim refugees increases likelihood of terrorism

Poll dates, Dec. 12, 2016-Jan. 11, 2017, online poll, 10,000 respondents. Overall, across 10 European countries an average of 55% agreed that all further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped. These results chime with  2016 Pew survey of 10 European countries exploring attitudes to Islam in Europe, with majorities in 5 countries holding negative views of Muslims living in their countries: Hungary, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Spain.

2/7/17, "What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration?" chathamhouse.org

What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration?

What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration?

"Drawing on a unique, new Chatham House survey of more than 10,000 people from 10 European states, we can throw new light on what people think about migration from mainly Muslim countries. 

Our results are striking and sobering. They suggest that public opposition to any further migration from predominantly Muslim states is by no means confined to Trump’s electorate in the US but is fairly widespread.

In our survey, carried out before President Trump’s executive order was announced, respondents were given the following statement:

‘All further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped’.  

They were then asked to what extent did they agree or disagree with this statement. Overall, across all 10 of the European countries an average of 55% agreed that all further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped, 25% neither agreed nor disagreed and 20% disagreed.

Majorities in all but two of the ten states agreed, ranging from 71% in Poland, 65% in Austria, 53% in Germany and 51% in Italy to 47% in the United Kingdom and 41% in Spain. In no country did the percentage that disagreed surpass 32%.

Public opposition to further migration from Muslim states is especially intense in Austria, Poland, Hungary, France and Belgium, despite these countries having very different sized resident Muslim populations. In each of these countries, at least 38% of the sample ‘strongly agreed’ with the statement. With the exception of Poland, these countries have either been at the centre of the refugee crisis or experienced terrorist attacks in recent years....

There is also some evidence that public opposition crosses political boundaries, with three-quarters of those who self-classify themselves as on the right of the political spectrum and more than a third of those on the left supporting a halt.

These results chime with other surveys exploring attitudes to Islam in Europe. In a Pew survey of 10 European countries in 2016, majorities of the public had an unfavorable view of Muslims living in their country in five countries: Hungary (72%), Italy (69%), Poland (66%), Greece (65%), and Spain (50%), although those numbers were lower in the UK (28%), Germany (29%) and France (29%). There was also a widespread perception in many countries that the arrival of refugees would increase the likelihood of terrorism, with a median of 59% across ten European countries holding this view. This mirrors some attitudes in the US."...

"The Chatham House Europe Programme, with Kantar Public, surveyed nationally representative samples of the population aged 18 or over in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK. Fieldwork was carried out online using quota sampling (age, gender and region) between 12 December 2016 and 11 January 2017. The total number of respondents was 10,195 (c. 1,000 per country).​" chart above from Chatham House





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