Tampere, Oulu and Turku. 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. In 2018, the Minister of Justice Antti Häkkänen ruled out the use of Islamic law in Finland. Islamic societies 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: Muslim majority ethnic groups by language Numbers are based on the Statistics Finland (language, 2019). 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 Terrorism and radicalisation The ICCT report from April 2016 showed that at least 70 individuals had left Finland to enter the conflict zone and the majority joined jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. They started leaving in the 2012-13 time span and the male-female ratio was about 80-20%. The first 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. 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 propaganda. The militant Islamist networks in Finland are multiethnic and span across generations, where the