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According to the 2012 European Social Survey, the population of Kosovo was about 88% Muslim, 5.8% Catholic, 2.9% Eastern Orthodox, 2.9% irreligious, 0.1% Protestant and 0.4% another religion. [8] In 2010, according to Pew Research Center, Kosovo had 93.8% Muslims and 6.1% Christians (mainly Orthodox but also Catholics and even Protestants).
From 1389 until 1912, Kosovo was officially governed by the Muslim Ottoman Empire and a high level of Islamization occurred among Catholic and Orthodox Albanians, mainly due to Sufi orders and socio-political opportunism. Both Christian and Muslim Albanians intermarried and some lived as "Laramans", also known as Crypto-Christians. [2]
The constitution establishes Kosovo as a secular state that is neutral in matters of religious beliefs and where everyone is equal before the law and freedom to belief, conscience and religion is guaranteed. [45] [46] The 2011 Kosovo population census was largely boycotted by the Kosovo Serbs, especially in North Kosovo.
The degree of religiosity in the population of the United States can be compared to that in other countries and ... Texas: 82 50 23 1 2 4 18 <1 [9] Arkansas: 81 75 8 ...
Muslims for Bush has since been reformed into the bipartisan Muslims for America. American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC) was created in July 2012 by MD Rabbi Alam, a Bangladeshi-born American politician. This newly created organization is one of America's largest Muslim civil liberties advocacy organizations.
“Being Muslim in America for me has always been something to be proud of. Although there have, of course, been times where, as a Muslim, we can feel as a community targeted or marginalized. But despite that, I’ve always been encouraged by Muslims and Muslim leaders and how they respond to those things and how they hold their country and ...
An estimated 1.68% of the Texas population is Muslim, making it the fifth largest religious group in the state and first in the nation in number of Muslims, according to the Texas Almanac. About ...
Moments like this — like the aftermath of 9/11 or the reckoning after former President Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban in 2017 — moved many to conceal their ethnicity or cover their faith ...