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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]
Metro area Net Religious (%) Total Christian (%) Evangelical Protestant (%) Mainline Protestant (%) Historically Black Protestant (%) Catholic (%) Latter-day Saint (%) Other (%) None (%) Dallas: 82 78 38 14 7 15 1 4 18 Atlanta: 80 76 33 12 18 11 1 3 20 Houston: 80 73 30 11 9 19 1 4 20 Miami: 79 68 20 11 8 27 <1 10 21 Chicago: 78 71 16 11 8 34 ...
Many enslaved people brought to America from Africa were Muslims from the predominantly-Muslim West African region. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] [ 46 ] Between 1701 and 1800, some 500,000 Africans arrived in what became the United States. [ 47 ]
The Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were 313,209 Muslims as of 2020. [75] Texas is the fifth-largest Muslim-populated state in the country. [78] The Jewish population was around 128,000 in 2008. [79] In 2020, the Jewish population grew to over 176,000. [80]
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 ...
Being Muslim in America means… “I think there’s always a certain level of bias initially when people meet you. Especially for me as a Muslim woman, they’ll be surprised. I am a professional and I work in an area that is high-paced and intense. I don’t think people usually envision a Muslim woman in that space.
Kosovo's constitution, passed when the former Yugoslav province declared independence in 2008, says everyone has the right to marry but that laws should be passed to regulate marriages.