During the war, Middle Eastern nations helped finance and supply the Bosnian Muslims. Some even came to fight themselves and after the war, took Bosnian wives and stayed in the country. Muslim fundamentalists are funneling into the nation

Reports from the Christian Community: The Kosovars were very touched to see that the Turks, who originally brought Islam to Kosovo, were open to the gospel and wanted to know more about Jesus.

When Kosovo failed to become an independent state within Serbia in 1989 the ethnic Albanians who lived there were denied jobs and services. Ethnic Albanians, mostly Muslims, began settling the province of Kosovo during the period of Turkish rule. Increasing violence and conflict in 1998 forced thousands of Kosovo Albanians to flee. In the following months a "reverse ethnic cleansing" occurred with up to 200,000 Serbs fleeing Kosovo.