(Jewish Group) Study shows that a large minority of Germans would not accept Jewish or Muslim family [View all]

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Around a third of Germans would not accept a Muslim into their family, and a fifth would not accept a Jew as a family member, a study has found.

The results of the report by the US-based Pew Research Center, released on Tuesday, have come amid heightened anxiety about Islam and anti-Semitism in Germany.

19 percent of Germans polled responded negatively to the question: "Would you be willing to accept a Jew as a family member?"

Among the 15 European countries included in the study, the percentage of respondents who said they would not accept a Jewish family member was highest in Italy (25 percent), Britain (23 percent) and Austria (21 percent). The Netherlands and Norway had the lowest (3 percent).

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Overall, the results showed that practicing and non-practicing Christians across Europe were more intolerant of Muslims, Jews and immigrants than Europeans who do not identify as being religious.

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http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/01/qa-measuring-attitudes-toward-muslims-and-jews-in-western-europe/

What factors are correlated with negative sentiments toward religious and other minorities?

Perhaps not surprisingly, we found that Western Europeans who identify with the far-right side of the ideological spectrum in their country are more likely to express negative feelings about minorities and immigrants. Education is also a factor: People with less education are more likely to take negative positions toward Muslims, Jews and immigrants. And familiarity does not seem to breed contempt. On the contrary, Europeans who say they personally know a Muslim are less likely to express negative views of Muslims.

But there’s another interesting finding that jumps out of the data across the region. Self-described Christians in Western Europe are more likely than religiously unaffiliated adults to hold negative views toward immigrants and religious minorities. They’re also more inclined to express nationalist attitudes. This is true even when we use statistical techniques to control for factors including age, education, gender, political ideology and personal economic satisfaction. And it’s true both for highly observant Christians and for those who seldom go to church. In Finland, for example, 67% of Christians who attend church on at least a monthly basis, as well as 63% of those who attend less often, say “Islam is fundamentally incompatible with Finnish values and culture.” That compares with 54% of religiously unaffiliated Finnish adults.

Why this is the case is beyond the scope of our study, but we’re aware that there are some commentators in Europe who have suggested that Christian identity has become a kind of cultural marker for some Europeans – a way of differentiating themselves from newcomers and minorities – even if they are not particularly religious.