We use EI, EIIL or more recently Daesh.
The only people who had any idea of what was talked about where those reading the English language media.
My guess is that people aither thought about something else, or not wanting to be caught being ignorant stated a random opinion.
Basically the question used two denomination for Daesh, none of which being widely used by the media... Add to that people too proud to admit their ignorance, and you have the recipe for a totally worthless poll...
The polling organisation is reputable, but the detail that they and the Russian state media organisation they conducted it for provided is scant: http://www.icmunlimited.com/media-centre/press/isis-poll-for...
Similar polls of almost-exclusively Muslim, mainly Sunni and generally anti-West Gaza have found a much more negative opinions of ISIS
In his view, even if the citizens of western countries can enjoy freedom and a good life, the actions of their governments in other countries are not so wonderful. The word "hypocrite" was mentioned. I had some problems to refute this reasoning.
I think that we can condemn terrorism and be against the instauration of caliphates without give up critical thinking. After all, that should be one of the most important Western values.
As you quoted yourself, this is among all creeds, not among muslims. France has larger muslim population than germany or GB that were in the same survey, yet this still does not explain the huge difference in youths actually supporting daesh. So, its fair to say that french youth in general is disillusioned. Also note that this was before charlie hebdo and the recent attack, not sure how the non-muslim french would respond now.
The banlieues are often referenced , but were the terrorists from the banlieues? the whole thing seems to be orchestrated from belgium.
The French economy is moribund, growth is nil, youth unemployment rates are over 25%, and lots of them are sitting around unemployed or in dead-end jobs - while their parents hold much cushier jobs with some of the world's best labor protections (or most-notorious, depending on your perspective). It's not shocking.
I'd argue this "French economy" argument is pretty weak under scrutiny.
An ICM poll on behalf of the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya tested the awareness of the group ISIS (previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant), in three European nations; Great Britain, France and Germany. The poll revealed that overall 2% and 7% say they are very favourable and somewhat favourable towards ISIS but a greater 26% and 43% are somewhat unfavourable and very unfavourable towards ISIS.
Not only they didn't break it down betwene religions, but I'm not even sure how NYT themselves extracted their "1/4 youths support ISIS" claim from this data.
OTOH, have a look at this link originally posted by imaginenore in some other thread:
http://www.pewresearch.org/files/old-assets/pdf/muslim-ameri...
It's very likely that most people that answered misidentified the faction that was talked about.
Despite these astonishing numbers, it still has nothing to do with religion, right? Downvote me to hell, but if a quarter of certain group openly supports mass-killers, I have a very serious reason to be afraid of them and avoid at all cost.
EDIT: formatting