A Bulgarian court has “sentenced radical imam Ahmed Mussa and 13 other Bulgarians for propagating religious hatred and incitement to war in their support for the Islamic State militant group.” Mussa is “a former Christian of Roma origin who converted to Islam in 2000 while working in Vienna.” He “had preached surrounded by the Islamic State flags.”

Bulgaria can expect to see more such activity. In 2014, Bulgaria started “devoting considerable attention and resources to building a border fence to keep out refugees and migrants from the Middle East. But for much longer, it has also been building walls between its own communities.” But then in 2015, Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov warned that the “number of migrants coming to Bulgaria threatens to tilt ‘the demographic balance’ of the predominantly Slavic and Christian Orthodox country.” Now Muslims make up 12 percent of the country’s population. By 2017, a survey by Pew Research Center indicated that Muslims in Bulgaria, who were seen as a group as mostly secular, “showed signs of an increased religiosity, with 33% of Bulgarian Muslims stating that religion was ‘very important’ in their lives.”

Much has been written about a critical mass with respect to the Muslim population. Raphael Israeli is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Israeli puts the critical mass at 10% and warns that “when the Muslim population gets to a critical mass you have problems. That is a general rule.” He goes on to explain that “Muslim immigrants had a reputation for manipulating the values of Western countries, taking advantage of their hospitality and tolerance….when the Muslim population increased, so did the risk of violence.”

He stated further:

Where there are large Muslim populations who are prepared to use violence you are in trouble. If there is only 1 or 2 per cent they don’t dare to do it – they don’t have the backing of big communities. They know they are drowned in the environment of non-Muslims and are better behaved.

Missionary researcher Dr. Peter Hammond also warns about how Islam progressively takes over a country.

“14 Bulgarians sentenced for supporting Islamic State,” Reuters, December 10, 2019: