Using data from Pew Research, yesterday I created two maps from a survey in Europe. A question to non-Muslims was asked; "Would you accept a Muslim as a member of your family?". The results were interesting, but then when you took a look at the ones specifically for young adults (18-34) it suddenly became a lot more positive for us.
https://i.imgur.com/DyffxG5.png
(Apologies for bad image quality; top is young adults, bottom is overall).
Here are the net changes between what the young generation of adults thinks, and what people overall think.
+17 Portugal
+13 Finland
+13 Italy
+11 Spain
+10 Greece
+9 Belgium
+9 Denmark
+9 Lithuania
+8 Netherlands
+8 Norway
+8 Sweden
+7 Germany
+7 Slovakia
+6 Austria
+6 Bosnia
+6 Estonia
+6 Hungary
+5 Latvia
+4 Bulgaria
+4 Czechia
+4 Ireland
+3 Belarus
+3 Poland
+3 Romania
+1 France
+1 Ukraine
= Armenia
= Georgia
-1 Croatia
-1 Moldova
-1 Serbia
-1 Switzerland
-2 European Russia
-5 United Kingdom
This is very positive news to hear. These results were reflected in a similar poll done for the Americas which I cannot find unfortunately; the USA especially increased among younger people.
We need to not let the vocal minority that hate us get in the way of the truth; that for the most part, the young are more accepting of us.
We also need to not listen to the falsehood that the West is growing more hating of us. I see some scholars and political Islamic figures mention this in a bid to further their own politics. They are doing it for negative reasons and make things up like advocating for mass hijra to the Islamic world.
We also need to ensure that we don't reverse this trend! I think I know why the UK is the only country with a noticeable increase..a lot of Muslims there refuse to change in any way to British culture, giving people a worse impression of them, whereas Muslims such as my uncle from Afghanistan in Finland remain devout Muslims but make adjustments to Finnish life too. When emigrating we can't expect everyone to make their way for us, we have to do it too.
The last part is a bit ranty, I just want to share the good news with everyone here :)
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