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| | Muslim Population |
 | | Islam was the first religion to penetrate Nigeria, in that when Christianity was brought to the country by the British colonizers, Islam was already being practiced in the country. | | | Abuja, Muharram 7/Apr 1 (IINA) - Islam found its way to Nigeria about two centuries ago, starting from the north of the country, and was brought by Arab and Muslim merchants who came not only for business purposes, but also for spreading the word of Allah. | | | From the north, Islam then spread to the south of the country, and now it is spreading to all the other parts. |
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http://www.islamicpopulation.com/nigeria_muslim.html
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| | How Egypt Molded Modern Radical Islam - Zvi Mazel |
| | Islam as viewed by the radicals is not just a religion or religious narrative like Judaism or Christianity. | | | However, a closer look reveals that the disciples of radical Islam are still active and that the Islamist current in Egypt is still simmering, even under harsh pressure by the authorities. | | | When we speak of radical Islam, we are referring to a number of organizations that have engraved on their banner their intent to implement the rule of Islam within their country, and also to impose Islam on the world at large. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief004-18.htm
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| | Azerbaijan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other religions or philosophical beliefs that are followed by many in the country are the Sunni and Sufi sects of Islam, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, and various secular beliefs (many of which are left over from the Soviet era of less tolerance for spirituality). | | | Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan) is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with a coast on the Caspian Sea. | | | The official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a member of the Oguz subdivision of the Turkic language family, and is spoken by around 95% of the republic’s population, as well as about a third of the population of Iran. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Culture of Italy |
| | Islam was almost entirely absent in Italy from the time of that country's unification in 1861 until the 1970s, when the first trickle of North African immigrants began arriving. | | | Before the arrival of Christianity in the 1st century A.D. the country was mostly pagan and worshiped the Roman Gods. | | | The culture of Italy can be found in the Roman ruins remaining in much of the country, the laws and philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church, the architecture and on the terraces of the many football clubs. |
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Culture_of_Italy
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| | Uganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, is a country in East Africa, bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest and Tanzania in the south. | | | Attacks on political freedom in the country, including the arrest and beating of opposition Members of Parliament, has led to international criticism, culminating in May 2005 in a decision by the British government to withhold part of its aid to the country. | | | The country is located on a plateau, averaging about 900 m above sea level. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda
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| | Islam's Holy Prophet Muhammad - Prophat Muhammad and The Haven of the First Hijra |
| | In their effort to uproot Islam from the country, they have employed the services of western missionary groups who relentlessly devoted their time and financial resources for the main purpose of converting Muslims, especially orphan children of famine and drought victims, to Christianity. | | | Islam's Holy Prophet Muhammad- Prophat Muhammad and The Haven of the First Hijra | | | The land of the first Hijra is being groomed once again by the enemies of equality, justice and human rights to be the bastion of Christianity in East Africa. |
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http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Muhammad/Other/First_Hijra.htm
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| | Nigeria: Islam and the Sharia |
| | Democratic minded Nigerians have never forgotten that the Abacha regime when it was ostracized by the international community sought help among the Muslim states by trying to convince them that he was leading a war against the infidels, and seeking to Islamisize his country. | | | It was precisely to avoid religious conflict that the Nigerian Constitution originally envisaged a secular state with a total separation of state and religion, hence the attempts by the state of Zamfara to favour one religion over another, and even more, to Islamisize the law must be considered unconstitutional. | | | It was only the courage and vigilance of the Christian Association of Nigeria that prevented their country descending into a war of religion. |
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http://www.secularislam.org/newsletter/1/nigeria.htm
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| | AlterNet: U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam |
| | Islam is a faith that offers a clear sense of social justice, a feeling of empowerment, and an obligation by individuals to challenge those who cause the injustice. | | | The U.S. must stop considering Islam to be the enemy and instead encourage Islamic movements by working for justice and economic equality. | | | This occurs despite the existence of moderate Islamic segments and secular movements that are at least as influential as radicals in the political life of Islamic countries. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11479
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| | Islam in Mali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The country's traditional approach to Islam is peaceful and moderate, as reflected in the ancient manuscripts from the former University of Timbuktu. | | | Islam as practiced in the country is tolerant and adapted to local conditions. | | | Islam also spread in the region by the founders of Sufi brotherhoods (tarika). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Mali
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| | Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The remainder of the name originates from the Persian word stān (country or land). | | | Afghanistan is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. | | | International efforts to rebuild Afghanistan lead to the formulation of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA), as a result of the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, and later addressed at the Tokyo Donors Conference for Afghan Reconstruction in January 2002, where $4.5 billion was collected for a trust fund to be administered by the World Bank. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
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| | eurasia |
| | This study will effectively illuminate the nature of the influence that current Islamic leaders in Uzbekistan exert, or could potentially exert in the future, and the implications for the country’s future stability. | | | The study assesses the nature and origin of predominant influences in Islam across the country, with the objective of a comprehensive overview of Islam in Azerbaijan, highlighting geographic components, foreign influences, prevailing ideologies, and key individuals, to ascertain what long-term role Islamic trends could play in the future of the country. | | | This study examines trends in the development of Islam in rural Azerbaijan and their implications for the country’s future. |
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http://www.nbr.org/programs/eurasia
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| | Hell in South Sudan |
| | The regime in Khartoum justifies its scotched earth rampage in my country by claiming that it is a 'divine mission' in the name of Allah. | | | Sudan is that one million square kilometer country in Africa bordering Egypt, the Red Sea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Central Africa, Chad, and Libya. | | | This association is reinforced by the linkage between Arabism and Islam in Sudan. |
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http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/hellin.htm
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| | iranian.com: Azar Majedi, Political Islam vs. secularism |
| | There is a strong movement for the secularisation of society in a country under the siege of political Islam for 25 years. | | | With the coming to power of the Islamic Republic in Iran, we began to witness a revival of the Islamic movement as a political movement, i.e. | | | The right to criticise Islam is another important means of fighting religious dominance in society. |
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http://www.iranian.com/Women/2004/November/Majedi
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| | Islam in Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Turkey is the often considered to be the most westernized and modern country in the Islamic world. | | | Under his leadership, the caliphate--office of the successors to Muhammad, the supreme politico-religious office of Islam, and symbol of the sultan's claim to world leadership of all Muslims--was abolished. | | | The state's more tolerant attitude toward Islam encouraged the proliferation of private religious activities, including the construction of new mosques and Qur'an schools in the cities, the establishment of Islamic centers for research on and conferences about Islam and its role in Turkey, and the establishment of religiously oriented professional and women's journals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Turkey
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| | ISLAM in Iran |
| | Although Islam is a Semitic religion akin to Judaism and Christianity, it had a profound appeal to the Persian mind and soul and soon after its rise became the dominant religion of the country. | | | Islam does not distinguish between the religious and the secular. | | | Islam is essentially divided into two branches, the Sunni and the Shiite, the first group comprising the great majority.The difference between the two arose historically over the question of who should have succeeded the Prophet of Islam upon his death. |
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http://www.irantour.org/Iran/religion/ISLAM.html
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| | Ethiopian Religions - Christianity, Islam, Judaism & Paganism |
| | Islam spread to the east and south east of the country mainly Harar and Somali administrative regions. | | | The main religions in Ethiopia are Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Paganism. | | | Ethiopia is a predominantly Christian country and the majority of Christians are Orthodox Tewahedo Christians, who belong to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. |
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http://www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com/pages/religion.htm
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| | Bangladesh: The Next Taliban State? by Taj Hashmi |
| | What is worrisome is the way the writer has demonised both Islam and Bangladesh, totally ignoring the positive aspects of the third largest Muslim country, which is a functional democracy, no longer considered a “basket case”— the way Henry Kissinger portrayed the country in 1972. | | | An appraisal of political Islam in Bangladesh requires an understanding of the socio-economic and cultural aspects of the polity. | | | She has no idea about the similarities and differences between various Islamic groups and their leaders, the “great” and “little” traditions of Islam in the region and the difference between the mass/popular perceptions and the reality. |
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http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/taj_hashmi/bangladesh_next_taliban.htm
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| | Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church 2000 - Islam in Albania |
| | Their cultural religion (Islam) has told them for centuries that "paradise" can only be reached by a chosen few. | | | In reality, this number is exaggerated, in more ways than one, so I offer here a non-professional view of the state of Islam in Albania today, admittedly prepared by one with only a precursory understanding of the culture, but one who has interviewed quite a few native Albanians and missionaries living there. | | | Albania is a country that needs to hear the Gospel! |
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http://www.crpc.org/2000/Departments/Missions/islam.html
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| | Islam in Sudan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Although the Government has not interfered with actual worship and does not arrest or detain persons for practicing their religion per se, it treats its form of Islam as the state religion and has declared that Islam must inspire the country's laws, institutions, and policies. | | | Converted to Islam, the Zaghawa nevertheless retain much of their traditional religious orientation. | | | Sudan is a religiously mixed country, although Muslims have dominated national government institutions since independence in 1956. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Sudan
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| | Malaysia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Malaysia is a multi-religious society, but Islam is the official religion of the country. | | | The four main religions are Islam (60.4% of the population according to government census figures in 2000), Buddhism (19.2%), Hinduism (6.3%), and Christianity (9.1%, mostly in East Malaysia, i.e. | | | The first evidence of Islam in the Malay peninsula dates from the 14th century in Terengganu. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
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| | The Jamestown Foundation |
| | The Azeri state apparatus is in tight control of all political and religious activities in the country and ensures that Islamic movements are either closely monitored or supervised by various government agencies. | | | The absence of influential indigenous Islamic militant groups in Azerbaijan could also be explained by severe government crackdowns on all vestiges of dissent Islamic or otherwise. | | | While the majority of Azerbaijan's approximately eight million citizens are followers of the Shiite branch of Islam, there are substantial Sunni communities in the north and the west of the country. |
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http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=411&issue_id=3228&article_id=2369245
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| | Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan (Arabic: أردنّ, transliterated ʼUrdunn), is an Arab country in the Middle East. | | | Jordan is a Middle Eastern country, bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south and Israel and West Bank to the west. | | | Jordan is classified by the World Bank as a "lower middle income country." The per capita GDP was approximately $1,817 (€1,479) for 2003 and 14.5% of the economically active population, on average, was unemployed in 2003. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan
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| | ummah.com forum - Islam in Tajikistan |
| | Therefore Islam is regarded not only as a religion of most of the population of the country but as a substantial and organic part of the historical culture. | | | Tajik Islam, at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, was characterized by some modern movements; there were attempts to clean Islam from some non religious elements. | | | The bearers of intellectual Islam were either eliminated or had to leave the country. |
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http://www.ummah.net/forum/printthread.php?t=48760
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| | Branches of Islam, Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, Baha'ism, U.S.A. Black Muslims |
| | A small group founded by al-Wahhab in the eighteenth century, but it was the primary force in the creation of the state of Saudi Arabia in 1932, the country of the cities of Mecca and Medina, and from them, the Wahhabi have influenced Muslims throughout the world who go into the pilgrimage to Mecca. | | | In the USA, one of these is the "Nation of Islam" or "Black Muslims", started by Timothy Drew in 1913, and founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad, who established a mosque in Detroit in 1931, and claimed to be Allah incarnated. | | | The Wahhabis: The Fanatical Reformists of Modern Islam |
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http://religion-cults.com/Islam/islam5.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Netherlands |
| | Islam, the country’s third-largest religion, is growing because of immigration and high birth rates among Turkish and Moroccan immigrants. | | | All the country’s monarchs have been members of the Reformed Church. | | | The Roman Catholics in The Netherlands are concentrated in the southern part of the country. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761572410___9/Netherlands.html
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| | Bangladesh showbiz - News - The 102nd birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam |
| | The 102nd birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was celebrated in the capital and elsewhere in the country on 25 May. | | | Kazi Nazrul Islam - Nazrul, the son of Kaji Fakir Ahmed and Zaheda Khatun, was born in 1899 in an undivided India. | | | Abu Zafar Ahmed recited two of Nazrul's devotional poems from the collection of verse Kabya Ampara. |
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http://www.bangladeshshowbiz.com/news/nazrul_festival.htm
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| | Kazakhstan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but its semi-deserts (steppe) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16/mi²). | | | Kazakhstan is a bilingual country: the Kazakh language, spoken by 64.4% of the population, has the status of the "state" language, while Russian is declared the "official" language, and is used routinely in business. | | | Soviet repression of the traditional elites, along with forced collectivization in late 1920s-1930s, brought about mass hunger and led to unrest. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan
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