These are figures that make people sit up and take notice and give cause for concern regarding the mindset of many Muslim youths in Germany.
The Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN) conducted a representative dark field study on youth crime for the fifth time. In this study, 8539 pupils (average age 15), including around 300 Muslims, in the ninth grade in the northern German federal state were surveyed on perpetration and victimisation in relation to property and violent offences.
Point 6.3 of the 193-page research report, which was recently published under the title “Niedersachsensurveys 2022”, deals with Islamism.
Some of the answers from the Muslim students surveyed are worrying. For example, around two thirds – 67.8 per cent to be precise – of the participating Muslims emphasised the sentence: “The rules of the Koran are more important to me than the laws in Germany”.
► Just under half (45.8 per cent) believe that an Islamic theocracy is the best form of government.
► More than half (51.5 per cent) of the Muslim students surveyed were of the opinion that only Islam is capable of “solving the problems of our time”.
► 35.3 per cent stated that they “understand violence against people who insult Allah or the Prophet Muhammad”.
► 21.2 per cent stated that “the threat to Islam from the Western world justifies Muslims defending themselves with violence”.
“The data in the latest Lower Saxony survey gives cause for concern and shows how important political education in schools is in the classroom,” Carl Philipp Schröder from KFN told the newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Of the pupils surveyed, 3.8 per cent attended a primary and special school, 60.2 per cent attended a secondary school (integrated secondary and intermediate school, secondary modern school, comprehensive school and grammar school) and 35.1 per cent attended a grammar school. 50.4 per cent of the pupils were male, 48 per cent female and 1.6 per cent said they were “diverse”.
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