Wow. Thanks for the alarming article. I knew it was bad, but not quite this bad. The 2004 numbers I had stated a population of 150 million with 20 million Muslims (13.3%). These new stats show that a Russian population of 143 million has 25 million Muslims (17.5 %). Thats much worse then France already and apparently accelerating even worse. A civil war in Russia will make Iraq look like a cakewalk.
At the Sobornaya Mosque, there are already some signs of the dangers ahead. One bearded young man, who refuses to give even his first name, anticipates a day when large chunks of Russia can be broken off into Islamic states. "It's only a matter of time," he says.
In 1552, Tsar Ivan IV ("Ivan the Terrible"), sacked the city of Kazan and forced its inhabitants to convert to Christianity. It looks like it's payback time.
Regards, Ivan