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According to the CIA World Factbook, [ 19] the Muslim population is estimated at around 59.5% [ 20] within the Lebanese territory and of the 8.6 [ 21] –14 [ 22] million Lebanese diaspora is believed by some to be about 20% [citation needed] of the total population. The last census in Lebanon in 1932 put the numbers of Muslims (Shia 19%, Sunni ...
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Women in Lebanon are treated according to patriarchal norms although the legal status of women has improved since the 20th century. Gender equality in Lebanon remains problematic. [ 3 ] Active feminist movements exist in Lebanon which are trying to overcome the legal and sociopolitical discrimination enshrined in law.
Nonetheless, such names are accepted in some areas. Its use is not exclusive to Muslims and throughout all Arab countries, the name Abdel-Massih, "Servant of Christ", is a common Christian last name. Converts to Islam may often continue using the native non-Arabic non-Islamic names that are without any polytheistic connotation, or association.
A Muslim woman who filed a federal lawsuit against the Warren County Regional Jail that claimed she was required to remove her religious headwear and garments, was photographed without them, and ...
The Maronite, Muslim and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century, through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite-Druze dualism" in Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifite. [ 1] Despite the religious and denominational diversity of the Lebanese, they "share an almost common culture". [ 2]
Several Warren County officials are facing a federal lawsuit from a Muslim woman who was previously held at the Warren County Regional Jail after they required the woman to remove her religious ...
Maronite Christian (21.71%) Greek Orthodox (7.34%) Melkite Greek Catholic (4.8%) Other Christian Denominations (3.79%) Druze (5.74%) Other (2.34%) Lebanon differs from other Middle East countries where Muslims have become the majority after the civil war, and somewhat resembles Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania, both are in Southeastern Europe ...