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However, around 83% of Muslims are proud to be a British citizen, compared to 79% of the general public, 77% of Muslims strongly identify with Britain while only 50% of the wider population do, 86.4% of Muslims feel they belong in Britain, slightly more than the 85.9% of Christians, 82% of Muslims want to live in diverse and mixed ...
The largest Muslim groups in Estonia consist of Tatars (of Mishar origin) and Azeris. There are also smaller amounts of Muslims belonging to various regional and ethnic backgrounds (including converts to Islam). The majority of Muslims in Estonia are Sunni except for the Azeris, who are Shia. [3] Most Estonian Muslims live in or around Tallinn. [2]
In 2009, the Pew Research Center estimated that 1.6% of the population, or 236,000 people were Muslims. [1] In 2021, the State Department estimated the Islamic population at less than 1%. [ 2 ] Like other Muslim Cham people , those in Cambodia are Sunni Muslims of the Shafi'i denomination and following the Maturidi doctrine.
Islam in Uttar Pradesh is the second largest religion in the state with 38,483,967 adherents in 2011, forming 19 .26% of the total population. Muslims of Uttar Pradesh have also been referred to as Hindustani Musalman (Urdu: ہندوستانی مسلمان). [1]
Today, 95.6% of Kosovo's population are Muslims, most of whom are ethnic Albanians. [4] There are also non- Albanian speaking Muslims, who define themselves as Bosniaks , Gorani and Turks . History
Like the vast majority (90%) of Muslims in the world, most Muslims in Africa are also Sunni Muslims; [2] the complexity of Islam in Africa is revealed in the various schools of thought, traditions, and voices in many African countries. Many African ethnicities, mostly in the northern half of the continent, consider Islam as their traditional ...
Shia Islam is also present in Ghana, primarily among the Lebanese immigrant community that arrived starting in the 1980s. 8% of percent of Ghana's Muslim population identify as Shi'i. [31] Shias freely operate religious schools and mosques.
Due to the secular nature of Madagascar's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. Islam has been well established in what is now known as Madagascar for centuries and today Muslims represent 2 to 5 percent of the total population.