Bulgaria’s printed media focus on Friday on the latest public opinion survey of Alpha Research agency and the New Bulgarian University about the sentiments of Bulgarian Muslims. Sega daily concludes that Muslims living in Bulgaria are supporters of the secular state. The Bulgarian Muslims’ lifestyle combines modernity and traditions, Dnevnik daily comments on April 7 that Bulgarian Muslims show higher confidence in Turkey and its President Erdogan and in Germany and its Chancellor Merkel, Trud daily writes on its first pages that 54% of the Muslims in Bulgaria disapprove of burqas, Duma daily informs today. Only 0.7% of the Muslim respondents said that they wanted the sharia law to solve disputes in their community. 57.3% of Bulgarian Muslims contend that disputes should be solved by the state court. 21.5% of them believe that the elderly members of their community should resolve disputes, 16.6% of the respondents believe that their God is the one who should resolve disputes in the Muslim community and 12% of the surveyed Muslims answered that problems should be resolved by their clerics. Bulgarian Muslims show a negative attitude towards terrorism with 89% of the respondents believing that terrorism should be condemned in all cases and only 1.1% of the respondents saying that terrorism may be justified under given circumstances. In 2016, 52% of all Bulgarian Muslims were not interested in politics, whereas in 2011 only 30% of them stated they were not interested in politics. However, 69% of them show high confidence in Turkey. 49% of them show confidence in Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan. 65% of the surveyed Bulgarian Muslims show confidence in Germany and 45% of them declared confidence in German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Most of them (52%) like Russia, but only 17% of the Bulgarian Muslims like the USA. 4.8% of the respondents insist that Bulgaria must accommodate refugees unconditionally and 38.5% of them said that Bulgaria should not receive any migrants. The Bulgarian Muslims retain their low social status, the survey further shows. 63% of the respondents declared an average monthly income of only EUR 125.This, coupled with a sense of a lack of prospects in the town or village where they live, is the reason why they look for seasonal jobs or emigrate together with their entire families. 8.5 percent state they have children who have settled abroad permanently with their families. Of them, 20 percent are in Turkey, 10 percent in Germany, 4 percent in Belgium, 2 percent in Great Britain and 2 percent in Spain and 1 percent in Holland, Greece and in France.
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