Poll: Even Before Charlie Hebdo Attacks, 57% of Germans Viewed Islam as Threat

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/12/poll-even-before-charlie-hebdo-attacks-57-of-germans-viewed-islam-as-threat/ 

Concern among Germans regarding the destructive potential of Islam within a free society has been growing in the past several years; even before last weeks gruesome attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a plurality of Germans believed that Islam was “threatening” or “very threatening” to German society, according to one poll.

The poll, conducted by the think tank the Bertelsmann Foundation, found that a full 57% of Germans reported feeling threatened of “very threatened” by the religion. While released this week, the think tank notes that the survey was conducted in November, long before the Charlie Hebdo attacks and even before the establishment and growth of PEGIDA, an anti-radical Islamist movement based in Dresden.