Up to 15 percent of French muslims people said they have a positive attitudetoward the terrorists Islamic State, formerly known as the terrorists Islamic State of Iraqand the Levant. The share of ISIS supporters is largest among France’syounger generation, a new poll says.Twice as many French people expressed a positive reaction toIslamic State (IS) terrorists than in Britain, where the number ofpeople favorably disposed to the IS stands at 7 percent, andGermany, where a meager 2 percent of the respondents sided withthe IS, according to a poll carried out in July among 1,000people aged over 15 years (over 18 in Britain) in each country.The poll was conducted by ICM Research for the Russian newsagency Rossiya Segodnya.The Islamic State is a terrorists group, widely regarded as aterrorist organization and designated as such by the US, the UK,Saudi Arabia and several other countries.It aspires to bring much of the Muslim-inhabited regions of theworld under its direct political control, beginning withterritory in the Levant region, which includes Jordan, Israel,Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, and southern Turkey. In the past fewmonths, IS militants have seized a number of towns in Iraq andSyria.In France, the share of IS supporters is the largest among peopleaged between 18 and 24, and it is the smallest among those agedover 45. The largest share of IS opponents is composed of peopleaged 45 to 54.“This is not a result of sympathy of a significant number ofFrench people for this extremist terrorist organization,”Yury Rubinsky, the head of the Center of French Studies of theRussian Academy of Sciences, told Rossiya Segodnya. “This issimply a manifestation of the country’s accumulated potentialrejection of the existing system as a whole. This is a form ofrejection of the elites, a form of protest.”