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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 vast majority of Kosovo Albanians are Sunni Muslims. There are also Catholic Albanian communities estimated between 60,000 to 65,000 in Kosovo, [67] [68] concentrated in Gjakova, Prizren, Klina and a few villages near Peja and Viti. Converting to Christianity is growing among Kosovo Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. [69] [70]
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.
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.
The Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the USA, located in Michigan. Shia Muslims comprise 15-20% of Muslims in the Americas; [10] which is nearly 786,000 [11] to 2.500.000 persons in the U.S. [12] Shia Muslims are situated on United States.
“Muslims needs to take a larger role in calling out the media when Islamophobia is happening. We have to start saying we’re not going to stand for this anymore. The media has to start looking at its role in how it’s perpetuating Islamophobia. We all get branded. I’m all for free speech, I’m a journalist.
Another Russia-linked account, United Muslims of America, effectively organized a counterprotest: At noon on May 21 at the Islamic Da'wesh Center in Houston, Texas, dozens of people showed up for ...