The website France 24 carries a story about a survey of French Muslim attitudes which suggests that up to a third of France’s four to five million Muslims reject the legitimacy of the country’s secular laws. This makes for interesting reading, but perhaps not quite in the manner you might expect.
First of all, this poll was done over the telephone and the sample was a small one, so it is highly doubtful that this survey is anything more than the most cursory of opinion polls. In other words, the answers it comes up with are doubtful – but the questions it makes us pose may be useful.
