A new poll conducted in France and Germany indicates that a notable portion of participants consider Islam a "threat".

Nabila Ramdani

Islam is considered a "threat" by millions of French and Germans, with the vast majority believing Muslims have "not integrated properly", a devastating new poll reveals today.

The Le Monde/IFOP poll sampled 1600 adults - 800 in France and 800 in Germany - on issues relating to Muslim integration, during a single day last month. Le Monde newspaper runs the results under a headline which brands efforts to get different religious and cultural communities to live side-by-side as a "failure".

It will be viewed with particular dismay in France and Germany, as the two countries have the biggest Muslim communities in Europe. Britain also has a sizable Muslim presence, with members often complaining of discrimination and prejudice.

"Islam and integration: French and Germans admit failure," writes Le Monde, the most famous newspaper in Paris. According to its poll carried out with marketing firm IFOP, 68 per cent of French and 75 per cent of Germans believe Muslims are "not well integrated into society".

Just as crucially, 42 per cent of French and 40 per cent of Germans consider the presence of Muslim communities a "threat" to their national identities.

An editorial in Le Monde adds, "As Islam becomes a permanent and increasingly conspicuous fixture of European societies, public opinion is clearly tensing up, though disparities do appear between young and old and between left- and right-wing."

Jerome Fourquet, of IFOP, said the results "go beyond linking immigration with security or immigration with unemployment, to linking Islam with a threat to identity".

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