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== Terrorism and radicalisation == |
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The [[International Centre for Counter-Terrorism|ICCT]] report from April 2016 showed that at least 70 individuals had left [[Finland]] to [[Foreign fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars|enter the conflict zone and the majority joined jihadist groups in Syra and Iraq]]. They started leaving in the 2012-13 time spand and the male-female ratio was about 80-20%.<ref name="icct.nl">{{cite news|date=April 2016|title=The Foreign Fighters Phenomenon in the European Union|pages=44|publisher=The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague (ICCT)|url=https://icct.nl/publication/report-the-foreign-fighters-phenomenon-in-the-eu-profiles-threats-policies/|access-date=31 August 2016}}</ref> |
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The first Islamist terrorist attack in Finland was the [[2017 Turku attack]] where Abderrahman Bouanane, a failed [[asylum seeker]] from [[Morocco]], stabbed two women to death and wounded eight other people in his [[stabbing attack]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rosendahl|first=Jussi|date=2018-06-15|title=Knife attacker sentenced to life by a Finnish court|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-stabbings-idUSKBN1JB15F|access-date=2021-04-04}}</ref> |
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Islamic militants constituted the majority of those under surveillance by the [[Finnish Security Intelligence Service]] (SUPO) in 2020 and Finland is portrayed as an enemy state in [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] propaganda. The militant Islamist networks in Finland are multiethnic and span across generations, where the third generation of a number of Muslim immigrant families are radicalised. This leads to Muslim children growing up in a radicalized environment. The [[Foreign fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars]] movement has amplified transnational contacts for the Islamist movements in Finland. A number of militants have arrived from the conflict zone in Syria and the [[Al-Hawl refugee camp]] and constitute both a short and long term security threat. In 2021 the Finnish government started efforts to tighten its counter-terrorism laws, including criminalization of “participation in the activities of a terrorist group”.<ref>{{Cite web|title=How Nordic Countries are Handling the Question of Repatriating Islamic State Women |url=https://jamestown.org/program/how-nordic-countries-are-handling-the-question-of-repatriating-islamic-state-women/ |website=JamesTown|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Terrorhotbedömning|url=https://vuosikirja.supo.fi/sv/terrorhotbedomning|access-date=2021-04-04|website=Skyddspolisens årsbok|language=sv-SE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Den radikala islamistiska terrorismen efter kalifatet|url=https://vuosikirja.supo.fi/sv/den-radikala-islamistiska-terrorismen-efter-kalifatet|access-date=2021-04-04|website=Skyddspolisens årsbok|language=sv-SE}}</ref> |
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==Gallery== |
==Gallery== |
Revision as of 20:19, 28 November 2021
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Islam is a minority religion in Finland. The first Muslims were Tatars who immigrated mainly between 1870 and 1920.[1] After that there were decades with generally a small number of immigration in Finland. Since the late 20th century the number of Muslims in Finland has increased rapidly due to immigration. Nowadays, there are dozens of Islamic communities in Finland, but only a minority of Muslims have joined them. Pew Research Center estimates that in 2016 about 2.7% of Finland's 5.5 million population is Muslim. The real percentage is said to be 1.8% if counting together all language groups. In the high migration scenario, Finland's Muslim population could grow to 15% by 2050 which would equal almost a million Muslims in Finland.[2]
In December 2017 the city of Helsinki rejected a proposal to build a large mosque financed by funds from Bahrain. The application was rejected as it was unclear which movement of Islam would dominate its prayers and the attendant risk of radicalization and conflict between different religious communities.[3]
Baltic Tatars
The Baltic Tatars arrived in Finland as merchants and soldiers at the end of the 19th century. They were sunni muslims and spoke one of the turkic languages. They were later joined by other family members and formed the first Islamic congregation, the Finnish Islamic Association (Finnish: Suomen Islam-seurakunta), which was founded in 1925 after Finland had become independent from Russia and in 1922 passed a law on religious freedom. In practice, this society only accepts people from Tatar origin, or Turkic origin in general, as members, excluding non-Turkic speaking Muslims. The Finnish Tatars's Islamic congregations have a total of about 1,000 members these days.[4][5] By and large, Tartars remained the only Muslims in Finland until the start of the 1960s.[5]
Modern immigration
By the early 1980s, several hundred Muslims predominantly from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) had immigrated as students, laborers and spouses. In 1987 they formed the Suomen islamilainen yhdyskunta association.[5]
Due to the number of immigrants and refugees, the number of Muslims in Finland rose considerably in the early 1990s, predominantly they were from the aforementioned MENA countries as well as Somalia and the Balkans. Soon new immigrants established their own mosques and societies. In 1996 these groups came together to form a cooperative organ - the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Finland. It is estimated that approximately 1,000 Finns have converted to Islam. The vast majority of these are women who have married Muslim men.[4][5]
By 2003, the number of Muslims had increased to 20 000 and there were about 30 mosques. The majority of Muslims were Sunni as well as some Shia refugees from Iraq.[5]
Like most countries in Western Europe, Muslims tend to live in the larger cities of Finland like Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu and Turku.[5]
Hundreds of Muslim asylum seekers and refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan convert to Christianity after having had their first asylum application rejected by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), in order to re-apply for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.[6]
In May 2018, the Minister of Justice Antti Häkkänen responded to academic Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg who had demanded that sharia law and other laws from foreign cultures be incorporated into the justice system of Finland. He stated that "religion or culture can never justify abuse of women and children, such as female genital mutilation or child marriage. There is no place for Sharia law or parallel societies in Finland. Human rights apply to all equally."[7]
Islamic societies
Name | Registered | Home | Members |
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Finnish Islamic Association | 1925 | Helsinki | 567 |
Islamic Society of Finland | 1987 | Helsinki | 1 097 |
Helsinki Islamic Center | 1995 | Helsinki | 1 817 |
Tampere Islamic Society | 1998 | Tampere | 837 |
Islamic Rahma Center in Finland | 1998 | Helsinki | 575 |
Islamic Society of Northern Finland | 2000 | Oulu | 361 |
Resalat islamilainen yhdyskunta | 2001 | Vantaa | 486 |
There are dozens of independent Islamic societies in Finland. The oldest one is Finnish Islamic Association which was established in 1925. It has about 700 members of whom all are Tatars. The society has mosques in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti. The only building established only as mosque in Finland is Järvenpää Mosque.
The Islamic Society of Finland was established in 1987. Its members are mainly Arabs, but also Finnish converts. The society has a mosque and Koran school in Helsinki. The Helsinki Islamic Center is currently the biggest society with almost 2,000 members. Furthermore, there are a dozen other Islamic societies in Helsinki region, some of them are not officially registered.
Most of mosques are multilingual, but the most commonly used languages are usually English and Finnish. Religious services are held in Arabic.
Demographics
The population of Muslims in Finland from 2008 to 2018 ,according to the Statistics Finland:[9]
Year | Population |
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2008 | 40.000 |
2010 | 45.000 |
2012 | 50.000 |
2014 | 60,237 |
2016 | 110.000 |
2018 | 136.000 |
Muslim majority ethnic groups by language
Numbers are based on the Statistics Finland (language, 2019).[10]
- Arabic language (30,467)
- Somali language (20,997)
- Kurdish language (14,327)
- Persian language (12,090)
- Albanian language (10,391)
- Turkish language (7,739)
- Bengali language (3,599)
- Urdu language (2,983)
- Bosnian language (2,322)
- Punjabi language (1,028)
- Chechen language (636)
- Uzbek language (604)
- Indonesian language (589)
- Azerbaijani language (467)
- Turkmen language (447)
Total: 102,696
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Gallery
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6 Islamic, 15 English, and 76 German coins, latest coin dates from 1006-1029 - National Museum of Finland
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Main building of the Finnish-Islamic Congregation in Helsinki.
See also
- Finnish Islamic Party
- History of Islam in the Arctic and Subarctic regions
- A Moment in the Reeds, 2017 film
References
- ^ Mason, Robert (2016-04-08). Muslim Minority-State Relations: Violence, Integration, and Policy. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-52605-2.
- ^ "Muslim Population Growth in Europe". pewforum.org.
- ^ "Stadsmiljönämnden säger nej till stormoské i Helsingfors" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-12-14.
- ^ a b The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: Other Churches and Religions in Finland Archived 2010-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f "Sök - Uppslagsverket Finland". uppslagsverket.fi. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
- ^ "Stort finländskt fenomen - hundratals muslimer blir kristna". 4 October 2017. Archived from the original on 21 April 2018.
- ^ "Justitieministern slår tillbaka mot kraven: "Inget utrymme i Finland för sharialag"". Ålands Nyheter (in Swedish). 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
- ^ Uskonnot.fi (In Finnish) Keyword "islam". 16.8.2010
- ^ https://www.statista.com/statistics/533055/annual-number-of-individuals-identifying-as-muslim-in-finland/
- ^ [1][permanent dead link]
External links
- Report on Islam: Finnish Islam arises slowly (in Finnish).
- Finnish Islamic Congregation (in Finnish).
- Some of the mosques in Finland (map)