Germany: Disturbing Study on Young Muslims in Germany

According to a 2025 study by the German Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt-BKA), almost half of young Muslims in Germany under the age of 40 are either latently or manifestly sympathetic to Islamism. These terms are explained in the article below in BILD, which is translated by Fousesquawk.

Shocking study by BKA

Islamism is attractive to almost half of young Muslims

Caption: Young supporters of the Islamist terror state of the mullahs demonstrated on Sunday in front of the town hall in Frankfurt am Main.

-by Stefan Schlagenhaufer

March 12, 2026 at 09:48

Wiesbaden- This BKA study has a dynamite character.  The current “Motra-Monitor” reports, that as of 2025, almost every other Muslim (45.1%) in Germany under the age of 40 is latently or manifestly sympathetic to Islamism. That means: They feel themselves drawn to Islamism, want sharia rather than basic law, and have anti-Semitic prejudices.

598 pages long is the Motra-Monitor (Monitoring System and Transfer Platform of Radicalization), which, among others, is funded by the Federal Interior Ministry and Family Ministry, and published by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA). It is about right-wing extremism, but also about Islamist extremism. 

Caption: In the summer of 2025, young Muslims and radical-left Germans occupied the Gutenberg Monument in Frankfurt-some of them ready to demonstrate violently against Israel.

The researchers write that, “manifest Islamist attitudes are most prevalent among Muslims under the age of 40 at 11.5%.” Manifest means that the Islamist radicalization is already evident and pronounced.

According to the study authors, there is also a group with “latent Islamist-leaning attitudes.” It has grown greatly since 2021. “In 2025, this reached 33.6% of those under 40 years of age,” the research group writes. Latent means that the attitude toward Islamism is present, but radicalization is not yet visible. Together, both groups make up almost half (45.1%) of all Muslims under 40 years of age in Germany.

Islamism experts: Sharia over basic law

Islamism expert Susanne Schroeter, (68, formerly of the Goethe University of Frankfurt) is alarmed at the word Islamism-leaning. She tells BILD: “Islamism means that Muslims consider Islamist interpretations of Islam to be correct, feel drawn  to Islamist organizations that are close to the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafism, prefer sharia over basic law, and, as a rule, hold anti-Semitic prejudices.”

According to the BKA study, the radicalization of young Muslims has greatly increased, especially after the terror attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which more than 1,200 people in Israel were murdered.

Source: http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2026/03/germany-disturbing-study-on-young.html