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Eswatini is a Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a minority. Due to the secular nature of Eswatini's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The nation is home to over a million people, of which about 2% identify as Muslim, most of whom belong to the Sunni branch of Islam. [1]
[9] [3] According to the US State department, Islam forms about 2% of the population, [5] while 2% of the population is Muslim according to the CIA World Factbook, [15] and the Official Government state it is less than 0.2%. [7] The Muslims in Eswatini are formerly indentured workers who arrived from South Asia during the colonial era. [3]
The number of tourists visiting Eswatini increased from 89,015 in 1972 to 257,997 in 1989. In 1988 tourism was 3% of the GDP of Eswatini and more than 4% of its total exports. Although the traditional Monarchy of Eswatini has often been cited as a factor that attracts tourists, tourism has also been credited with causing modernization in ...
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Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa made history in 2020 when he led a senior Islamic visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps. Ahead of the 78th anniversary of the first of the Nazi camps to be freed ...
Islam is divided into two major denominations, Sunni and Shi'a. Of the total Muslim population, 87–90% are Sunni and 10–13% are Shi'a. ... Eswatini: 300,000 6000
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