Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFPAFP · 18 Sep 2016, 15:49Published: 18 Sep 2016 15:49 GMT+02:00Around one in four French Muslims, mostly young people, support an ultra-conservative form of Islam, including the wearing of the full-face veil, but the vast majority accept France's strict secular laws, a study showed Sunday. The Ifop survey carried out for a major study of French Muslims by Institut Montaigne, a liberal think-tank, showed that the vast majority of people who identify as Muslim accept curbs on religion in public. The survey of 1,029 people aims to inform the government's plans to overhaul French Muslim bodies in the wake of several jihadist attacks, most of them the work of French extremists. Two issues -- the right to wear the headscarf and access to halal food -- emerged as enjoying support among all Muslims, whether practising or not. The survey also showed that, contrary to commonly-held perceptions, French Muslim women are more conservative than men on some issues.

Source: The Local September 18, 2016 13:52 UTC