In February, a Gallup poll of 50,000 Muslims from around the world made headlines by revealing that only 7 percent of those surveyed were radical. How interesting then to contrast those findings with the London’s Center for Social Cohesion’s recent study of young British Muslims that found nearly one third of British Muslim students “support killing in the name of religion.” What’s more, “60 percent of active members of campus Islamic societies said such killings can be justified.”

A jump from 7 percent worldwide to 60 percent among British campus organizations is very telling. As enthusiasm for radical Islam wanes among Asia’s youth, the spirit of jihad will pose its most formidable challenge in the Muslim enclaves of the West. In the Muslim Middle East, young people have front row seats for the various disasters engendered by radical regimes: the confiscation of personal property, the denial of basic freedoms, the torture and death of loved ones. Moreover, with Iraq as an infant democracy, they also see a better regional alternative. In Europe, young Muslims are radicalized in cushy ghettos where they benefit from no-questions-asked, cradle-to-grave Western welfare and are free to dream of exotic wars and restored caliphates.

This detail from the study was actually encouraging:

Some 79 percent of Muslim students polled said they respected Jews.

Frankly, that seems like a higher number than you’d find in the non-Muslim population – including Jews.