A majority of French Muslims said they would react positively if their daughter married a Jew, a survey finds.
The results are part of a document comprising three reports published Sunday by the polling firm Ipsos based on opinion polls and interviews conducted over 2014 and 2015 with several partner organizations, including the Foundation of French Judaism.
The data on perceptions about Jews among Muslims comes from an online survey conducted among 500 French-Muslim adults between February 24 and March 9, 2015. In the survey, 55 percent of respondents said they would “react positively” if their daughter married a Jew, while 45% said they would “react negatively.”
Fifty-six percent of respondents from the general population said they would react negatively if their daughter married a Muslim.
The survey also revealed that anti-Semitic sentiment was more prevalent among French-Muslim respondents than respondents from the general population, with 18% of Muslims affirming that “there are too many Jews in France” compared to 13% in the general population.
— JTA
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