Peeter Oissar, chief superintendent of the Security Police, said Islamist extremism was a problem of the future that the Security Police were dealing with, the daily Postimees reported. He said most of the local Muslims were from the former Soviet Union and were integrated into Estonian society. But Oissar added that the number of immigrants from North Africa, the Middle East and Asian Islamic countries had been constantly increasing, particularly after Estonia's accession to the Schengen visa-free zone. The local Muslim community has been establishing more and more contacts with Muslim communities in foreign countries and their contact persons or structures were connected not with peaceful Islam alone, said the chief superintendent, according to whom some Islamic organizations had become interested in Estonia. "They have not been entered into the generally accepted lists of organizations connected with terrorism," he pointed out. The chief superintendent said that with great probability a mosque would be built sooner or later and it need not be possible or reasonable to try and prevent it or to artificially push for it. He said four or five attempts to build a mosque in Estonia had been made since the late 1980s.
