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	Demographics of Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following table analyzes the Demographics of Islam as of mid-year 2005.
		The exact percentage of the world's Muslim population that adheres to the various Shi'a sects, as opposed to the majority Sunni group, is indeterminate.
		No columns have been provided for the Ibadi branch of Islam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Islam (549 words)

	Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muslims hold that Islam is the same belief as that of all the messengers sent by God to humanity since Adam, with the Qur'an, the text used by all sects of the Muslim faith, codifying the final revelation of God.
		Ibadhism is distinguished from Shiism by its belief that the Imam (Leader) should be chosen solely on the basis of his faith, not on the basis of descent, and from Sunnism in its rejection of Uthman and Ali and strong emphasis on the need to depose unjust rulers.
		Most Islamist ideologies hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that governs the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state according to interpretations of Islamic Law.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islam (5248 words)

	Shi'a Islam - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Shi'a Islam, also Shi`ite Islam or Shi`ism () is the second largest denomination of the religion of Islam.
		Shi'a Muslims believe that Muhammad's family (the Imams) were the best source of knowledge about the Qur'an, Islam, and Emulation (the best-qualified teachers of Islam after Muhammad), and the most trusted carriers and protectors of Muhammad's Sunnah (traditions) due to many emphasized sayings by him.
		Shi'a Islam holds that the Imamate is one of the fundamentals of Islam (A part of the Usul-Ad-din) and that one should follow the Imams of Ahlul Bayt, in order to correctly follow the Prophet Muhammad and his Sunnah.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Shia (2668 words)

	Are We At War With Islam?
		Therefore, despite the U.S. administration's desire to separate the religion of Islam from the tactic of terrorism, the religion of Islam is the common denominator for all of the groups with which we are at war.
		Islam exists today as a religion comprised of the major orthodox divisions of Sunni and Shi'ite, although scores of other minor sects also exist.
		This basic understanding refutes the claim being made today that that the terrorists' religion is not that of Islam, that the radical’s religion is a perversion of Islam, and that the terrorists are vengeful or politically motivated, while the religion of Islam is peaceful and loving.
	www.albatrus.org /english/lien_of_oz/are_we_at_war_with_islam.htm (1605 words)

	ASNE - Islam: What's Next?
		He is the author of many books on Islam, including âDiscovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society,â which was the basis of a BBC six-part series called âLiving Islam.â He is a Pakistani and has held senior positions in Pakistan, including being their ambassador to the United Kingdom.
		Islam is, in the views of some, returning to its origins because it is independent of the state in a way that it has not been for all these centuries in the traditionally Muslim countries.
		Muslims are the first victims of militant Islam: for example, the 100,000 or 150,000 dead in Algeria as a result of the insurrection; for example, on a visible level, someone like Salman Rushdie.
	www.asne.org /index.cfm?ID=4334 (9736 words)

	Islam - Enpsychlopedia
		Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe that God (Allāh in Arabic) revealed his divine word directly to humanity through many earlier prophets, and that Muhammad was the final prophet of Islam.
		The basic tenet of Islam is found in the shahādatān ("two testimonies"): lā ilāhā illā-llāhu; muhammadu-r-rasūlu-llāhi — "There is no god but God (Allah) and Muhammad is the messenger of God (Allah)." A person who truly believes in the meaning of these words is a Muslim.
		As of January 1926, their final ruling on the matter of the origins of the Bahá'í Faith and its relationship to Islam was that the Bahá'í Faith was neither a sect of Islam, nor a religion based on Islam, but a clearly defined, independently founded faith.
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Islam (5568 words)

	Islam in Asia
		Islam and Security: Islam's implications for security in Asia at the national or country level come in the form of political stability and ability to accommodate minorities where Islam is the majority religion.
		Though Islam is the religion of half the country’s population, its influence in Malaysian life is central given the political and cultural pre-dominance of the Malay-Muslim population.
		Political Islam soon became subject to the process of marginalisation, and the strength of Islam as a political force was reduced remarkably due to a number of measures undertaken by the government.
	www.apcss.org /Publications/Report_Islam_in_Asia_99.html (11803 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Muslims hold that Islam is essentially the same belief as that of all the messengers sent by God to mankind since Adam, with the Qur'ān (the one definitive text of the Muslim faith) codifying the final revelation of God.
		Islam has three primary branches of belief, based largely on a historical disagreement over the succession of authority after Muhammad's death; these are known as Sunni, Shi'ite and Kharijite (Word Sunni, Shi'a, and Kharijite do not appear anywhere in Qu'ran).
		Sunni Islam's most fundamental tenets are referred to as the Five Pillars of Islam2, while Shia Islam has a slightly different terminology, encompassing five core beliefs (the "roots of religion") and ten core practices (the "branches of religion").
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/islam (5999 words)

	Women in Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As far as the question of women is concerned; Islam is very alive and well...and so is the courage to stand as a proud Muslim woman in the face of harsh criticism from loved ones and strangers alike.
		Women are the signposts of Islam and whether we like it or not, Islam is often judged by the perception people have of how these women are treated and how they behave.
		The acceptance of Islam by women has little to do with rejection of cultural traditions by disenfranchised malcontents, or family rebellion, or for pleasing a man. It does have to do with a sincere search for the truth motivated by a strong desire to serve God properly.
	www.islamicbulletin.org /issues/Jan99/jan99-women.htm (2002 words)

	newsalert: The Demographics of Radical Islam
		Islam has one generation in which to establish a global theocracy before hitting a demographic barrier.
		Islam has enough young men - the pool of unemployed Arabs is expected to reach 25 million by 2010 - to fight a war during the next 30 years.
		By 2050, according to the latest UN projections, the population growth rate of the Muslim world will converge on that of the United States (although it will be much higher than Europe's or China's).
	nalert.blogspot.com /2005/08/demographics-of-radical-islam.html (153 words)

	What is Islam? What do Muslims Believe? What is the relationship between Christianity and Islam?
		Islam is a major world religion, with over 1.2 billion followers worldwide (1/5 of the world population); it ranks second only to Christianity.
		Islam is considered one of the "Abrahamic" religions, being derived from the tradition of Abraham, the Hebrew Bible patriarch.
		Muslims have difficulty with the Christian notion of the Trinity and especially the notion that Christ is "the only begotten Son of God." In this sense Islam may be closer to Judaism in its affirmation of the unity and singularity of God.
	www.godweb.org /whatisislam.htm (1363 words)

	Connecting history to reality (October 17, 2001)
		Just as seventh-graders in Palo Alto schools were gearing up for a month-long unit on Islam in their social studies classes this fall, disaster struck when terrorists slammed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
		They said that even though they were horrified by the attacks, they were glad that their study of Islam has coincided with recent tragic events, helping them to learn about the roots of a culture that has been misunderstood in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
		The curriculum highlights the contributions of Islam to world civilization, such as the invention of algebra and the preservation of early knowledge in libraries.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2001/2001_10_17.islam.html (850 words)

	Islam - headings
		Education is provided to enable students to become acquainted with a wide and varied field of learning in the context of the Islamic view of nature, man, culture, civilization, as well as in the arts and sciences.
		Our purpose is to present Islam to students as a philosophy with a global and unique perspective that appeals to people of various languages, cultures, and ethnic and racial backgrounds.
		We believe misrepresentations of Islam are most often the result of ignorance on the part of non-Muslims and reluctance on the part of Muslims to articulate their case.
	www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu /Internet/islam.htm (2640 words)

	The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy » Islam & Arab
		[Islam’s massacres in India] are unparalleled in history, bigger in sheer numbers than the [Nazi] Holocaust, or the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks.
		Daniel Pipes has taken the position—contrary not only to that of Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington, but Muslims themselves—that Islam and the West are not engaged in a “clash of civilizations.” Pipes also claims that Islam is not decadent.
		In discussing Islam’s war against the Jewish state, the Covenant refers to the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza as but a single “squadron” of the “vast Islamic world.” “Our struggle against the Jews is very great,” and this struggle will go on “until the enemy is vanquished and Allah’s victory is realized.” (more…)
	foundation1.org /wp-en/category/beliefs-perspectives/islam-arab (1877 words)

	The American Encounter with Islam - FPRI
		Understanding America’s distinctive encounter with Islam is thus crucial to appreciating both the American and Islamic perspectives on the war on terrorism.
		The rise of political Islam and the establishment of a Jewish state in the twentieth century encouraged historical parallels and a formerly marginal event, the Crusades, became the foundation of Western conflict with Islam.
		The fault-line between Islam and Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth century ran from Spain to Kazakstan and later expanded through oceanic commerce to include Sumatra, India, and the Horn of Africa.
	www.fpri.org /footnotes/084.200309.hay.americaislam.html (3554 words)

	titusonenine » Blog Archive » Niall Ferguson on Islam and demographics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We have to be able to talk about processes of social integration and assimilation, we have to be able to talk about shifts in demographic balances openly, because if those things are made taboo, then the only people who are able to talk about them, end up being people on the political right.
		This entry was posted on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 at 4:41 pm and is filed under _General, Islam.
		3 Responses to “Niall Ferguson on Islam and demographics”
	titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /?p=12210 (710 words)

	CRISIS OF FAITH IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
		In slower motion, Islam faces a crisis of faith that will bring about a demographic catastrophe in the middle of the present century.
		Radical Islam should be interpreted as a cry of despair in the face of the ineluctable decline of Islamic society.
		Negotiating the demographic decline of the 21st century will be treacherous for countries that have proven their capacity to innovate and grow.
	www.ropma.net /crisis_of_faith_in_the_muslim_wo.htm (1082 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Asian News, Business and Economy.
		General staffs before World War I began war planning with demographic tables, calculating how many men of military age they might feed to the machine guns.
		Only Israel’s general staff looks at demographic tables today, to draw prospective boundaries that will enclose a future Jewish majority.
		Demographics still provide vital strategic information, albeit in quite a different fashion.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/GH23Aa01.html (986 words)

	Politicus: Trying to put Islam on Europe's agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		WASHINGTON About nine months ago, Francis Fukuyama, the historian, said that one of the big things distinguishing America from Europe was that, while the United States had staged its great debate on race, Europe hid from dealing frontally with how much Islam it could live with inside its borders.
		His desire to raise the issue of Islam and Europe is intriguing at the least, and surely intrusive for some Europeans.
		Samuel Huntington of Harvard and Bernard Lewis, the Princeton emeritus professor and Middle East expert, men sometimes schematized with Fukuyama as conservatives (although Huntington and Fukuyama are tough critics of aspects of America's involvement in Iraq), have recently questioned the extent of Europe's stability over the coming century as a result of Islam's growing presence.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1222897/posts (463 words)

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		The Demographics of Islam today Islam is the second largest religion in the world and it is growing faster numerically than any of the other HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_world_religions" \o "Major world religions" major world religions.
		It is growing at about 2.9% annually, as opposed to 2.3% per year global population growth.
		A recent demographic study, however, has determined that some the birth rates of some Muslim countries are plummeting to the levels of western countries.
	www.rockbrook.ie /Geography/Islam.doc (371 words)

	Islam Religion Symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		US government report from 2002 reviews the level of religious freedom in Brunei, including religious demography, legal restrictions, and social attitudes.
		Explore a collection of sites about Islam including its history, beliefs and practices, sects, commentaries, and opposing views.
		Access this collection of Islam related links including religious texts, famous speeches, personal stories, and religious photography.
	www.findingthefaith.com /islam-religion-symbols.html (176 words)

	Shi'a Islam - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Shi'a Islam, also Shi`ite Islam or Shi`ism (Template:ArB Template:ArTranslit Template:PerB) is the second largest denomination of the religion of Islam.
		Regardless of the dispute about the Caliphate, Shi'as regard highly the concept of Imamate, also called Khalifa Ilahi (divinely chosen successorship to Muhammad in terms of teaching the Qur'an, its meaning, the Shariah and the guides to the right practice of the Qur'anic faith).
		Shi'as are also found, but not limited to, in some numbers in southeast Asia, from Vietnam (the Cham people) to Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Shia (2639 words)

	LP: Europe, Islam, and Demographics
		A few Muslim nations do indeed have high fertility, but the common denominator is not Islam itself, as Steyn implies, but a lack of modernization.
		You see, Islam's recent growth has come almost fully from natural increase (which is now falling), and not from conversions.
		These aren't coming from the developed world, which is already predominantly Christian, but from places like China, India, and especially Africa, where over 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity each year.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=125217 (1022 words)

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	EAA: Volume 10, Number 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Six additional photographs to complement the article "Mosque and Mausoleum: Understanding Islam in India through Architecture," by Joseph Piro and Iftikhar Ahmad are available in the EAA "Supplemental Online Materials" section.
		Teaching Islam as an Asian Religion (PDF File)
		Sinbad the Sailor and the Eastward Journey of Islam
	www.aasianst.org /EAA/EAA-10-1.htm (122 words)

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