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	Muslims in Mauritius
		Mauritius, "The Star and Key of the Indian Ocean" as it likes to style itself, is a group of islands lying south of Asia and east of Africa.
		The prestige as well as the cultural and social prospects of the Muslim community in Mauritius was considerably enhanced by the presence in the colony of a small group of merchants and traders, who were doing flourishing business and wielding considerable influence in commerce and trade in the island.
		The main source of their wealth was in trade and not in the cultivation of land, as it would be in the coming years, with the descendants of the indentured workers.
	www.islamfortoday.com /mauritius.htm (1729 words)

	Mauritius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mauritius is part of the Mascarene Islands, with the French island of Réunion 200 km to the southwest.
		While Arab and Malay sailors knew of Mauritius as early as the 10th century and Portuguese sailors first visited it in 1505, the island remained uninhabited until 1638 when it was colonized by the Dutch.
		The island of Mauritius itself is formed around a central plateau, with its highest peak in the southwest, Piton de la Riviere Noire at 828 m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauritius (1683 words)

	Encyclopedia: Islam in Mauritius
		The 1968 constitution of Mauritius recognized four religious categories: Hindus, Muslims, Sino-Mauritians, and the general population.
		Islam by country – All the Muslims of Mauritius speak Mauritian Creole and have a good knowledge of French and English.
		Distribution of Islam Important note: Population counts by religious affiliation, like most demographic characteristics of a population, are based upon statistical science and subject to observational error and are technically referred to as estimates.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Islam-in-Mauritius (758 words)

	SIM Country Profile: Mauritius
		Mauritius has been called the "forgotten mission field." A beautiful tropical island, it is home to more than a million people, over half of whom are Hindus, the politically dominant group.
		Mauritius was populated over the next few centuries by waves of traders, planters, and their slaves, indentured laborers, merchants, and artisans.
		Mauritius Creoles trace their origins to the plantation owners and slaves who were brought to work the sugar fields.
	www.sim.org /country.asp?CID=32&fun=1 (2153 words)

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		Mauritius is part of the Mascarene Islands, with the French island of Réunion 200 kilometers (125 mi) to the southwest.
		Mauritius attained independence in 1968 and the country became a republic within the Commonwealth in 1992.
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	stron.frm.pl /wiki.php?title=Mauritius (2989 words)

	Search Results for 'Islam-by-country' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the conservative tradition of Islam the world is divided into two components: dar al-Islam, the house of submission or the house of God, and dar al-Harb, the house of war; the home of the infidels or unbelievers (Arabic: kufr).
		Islam (al-islām) "the submission to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the world's second largest religion.
		Islam is the religion of the Cham (also called Khmer Islam) and Malay minorities in Cambodia.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/I/Islam-by-country.htm (1422 words)

	Islam in South Africa Information
		Islam in South Africa probably predates the colonial period, and consisted of isolated contact with Arab and East African traders.
		The sheikh used his exile to consolidate the teaching of Islam among slaves in the Cape, many of whom came from Muslim backgrounds in Malaysia and Bengal.
		Islam was a popular religion among the slaves - its tradition of teaching enabled literate slaves to gain better positions in their masters' households, and the religion taught its followers to treat their own slaves well.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Islam_in_South_Africa (1390 words)

	Al Islam -
		The manner in which Islam has safeguarded the honour and esteem of woman in deprecated and subjected to misplaced criticism.
		Islam has propounded very noble teachings about family life and the Holy Prophet was a model of moral excellence in this respect.
		These were instrumental in dispelling the wrong notions about Islam held by a section of the educated classes.
	www.alislam.org /library/tahir1.html (2459 words)

	Mauritius - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		In addition to the island of Mauritius, the republic includes the islands of St. Brandon and Rodrigues and the Agalega Islands.
		Mauritius has attracted more than 9,000 offshore entities, many aimed at commerce in India and South Africa, and investment in the banking sector alone has reached over USD 1 billion.
		The two official languages of Mauritius are English and French, of which French is the still the most widely spoken despite France having lost its colonial dominion over the island for close to 200 years.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Mauritius (1040 words)

	Islamic Relief USA \| Mauritius
		Mauritius is an island-nation located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar.
		A country of over one million people, Mauritius is a small nation that has relied on foreign investment and tourism to be in a better situation than most other countries on the African continent.
		Mauritius has one of the better per capita incomes in Africa and a population with a greater life expectancy than most others.
	www.irw.org /wherewework/mauritius (179 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Cassam Uteem - A model Muslim Leader
		Surrounded by deep blue lagoons, soft white beaches, and gorgeous coral reefs, Mauritius is about 720 square miles in size, and has a mixed population, numbering about 1.1 million inhabitants with Indians, Muslims, Chinese, Creoles and people of European descent living at peace with one another.
		Though the servant offered his turn to the khalifah, 'Umar refused and remarked: "The honor of Islam (i.e., being a Muslim) is enough for all of us." He entered Jerusalem holding the rope of the camel on which [his servant] was riding.
		President Uteem believes that the Republic of Mauritius can only grow and prosper by accepting the fact of cultural diversity, and that Mauritians in general and Muslims in particular can only progress by learning about their differences as well as by reinforcing the values that they share in common.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=IC0611-3161 (1290 words)

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		In the 1962 census and later, Muslims started to refer to themselves as adherents of Islam without specifying sect, and this tendency toward greater uniformity was accompanied by greater orthodoxy, described as the sunnification of Islam in Mauritius.
		The revitalization of Islam, whereby universalistic elements have come to suppress particularistic elements, is evident in the disputes between the Hindu-dominated government and the Muslim community regarding the application of religious law for Muslims.
		Islamic revitalization in Mauritius and its emphasis on the universal elements of Islam among Muslims has to be understood in terms of the need for Muslims to distinguish themselves from other Indians and create a separate Muslim identity.
	www.sunnirazvi.org /society/mauritius.htm (6625 words)

	Society Fresh : Article 'Islam in Egypt' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ottoman rule reinforced the public and political roles of the ulama (religious scholars) because Islam was the state religion and because political divisions in the country were based on religious divisions.
		After he became master of the holy cities of Islam and captured Egypt along with the person of Al-Mutawakkil III, the last Caliph of the Abbasid dynasty who resided there, he induced him to formally surrender the title of caliph as well as its outward emblems, the sword and the mantle of the prophet.
		Islam came to Egypt in the 640s, and pressed southward; around 651 the governor of Egypt raided as far south as Dongola.
	www.society-fresh.net /DisplayArticle1029295.html (1397 words)

	Society Fresh : Article 'Mauritius' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Main article: History of Mauritius The island was discovered by the Portuguese in 1505, and first colonised by the Dutch in 1638, naming the island in honour of Prince Maurice of Nassau.
		Main article: Politics of Mauritius The head of state of Mauritius is the president, who is elected for a five-year term by the National Assembly, the unicameral Mauritian parliament.
		Main article: Demographics of Mauritius The two official languages of Mauritius are English and French, of which French is the still the most widely spoken despite France having lost its colonial dominion over the island for close to 200 years.
	www.society-fresh.net /DisplayArticleFull45423.html (1122 words)

	Muslims in the West and around the world today
		MWL is a nonprofit American Muslim organization working to implement the values of Islam and thereby reclaim the status of women as free, equal and vital contributors to society.
		Islam is often interpreted in ways that are sexist and not true to the true teachings of equality in the Quran and the model provided by Prophet Muhammad
		Despite its violent image in the West, the religion of Islam is a balm to millions in an otherwise cruel and crowded world.
	www.islamfortoday.com /muslimstoday.htm (8827 words)

	Commonwealth Press Union - Forums
		Shorn of its universal elements, Islam is helping to revive tribal feelings to allow Muslims to distinguish themselves from others.
		Despite assurances from the West that the war is not against Islam, there is insurmountable evidence of this in the pro-war literature coming out of the US.
		In the area of Islam, public distrust was most apparent when the Government announced the arrest of a group of militants which took place in August 2001.
	www.cpu.org.uk /forum_2003/rose_ismail.html (1832 words)

	Excite - Search: hinduism islam
		Islam and highlighted the dangers of mindless confrontation.
		Studies Gandhi's interpretation of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity and explains his religion as a federation of different religious faiths.
		Indian Religions: Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikkism, Sorashtrianism and Ch...
	msxml.excite.com /info.xcite/search/web/hinduism%2Bislam (319 words)

	1000Countries.com: Mauritius II: mauritius, MAURITIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mauritius is a mountainous sub-tropical island in the...
		Mauritius Elegant beach houses and bungalows for rent Mauritius Elegant beach houses and bungalows for rental nestled in luxuriant tropical gardens all along the shores overlooking an infinite...
		MAURITIUS, an island and British colony in the Indian Ocean (known whilst a French possession as the lie de France).
	www.1000countries.com /countries_of_the_world/mauritius_2.html (2694 words)

	Internet Marketing and Industry in Mauritius Blogger
		My wife, Carol, insists as always not to buy meat, fish, and fresh foods here after she had heard from a common friend of ours, Didier, that it had been mentioned in the local press that there was a serious hygiene problem at Shoprite (South African group).
		Nothing against Mahen who “excellent communication skills”, but Mauritius never ceases to amaze me. In this case, Mahen has gone from working on a small corner boutique to supervising, on a Sunday afternoon, one of the largest hypermarkets chains in Mauritius.
		Mauritius will not survive economically if it does not aim for every Mauritian to have a t least a secondary school leaving certificate.
	www.directorysearch.org /blogger_mauritius/mauritius_blogger.html (3182 words)

	Mauritius: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Mauritius claims the Chagos Archipelago (UK-administered British Indian Ocean Territory), and its former inhabitants, who reside chiefly in Mauritius, but were granted UK citizenship and the right to repatriation in 2001; claims French-administered Tromelin Island.
		Mauritius is a mountainous island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar.
		With a complicated ethnic mix—about 30% of the population is of African descent and the remainder is mostly of Indian descent, both Hindu and Muslim—political allegiances are organized according to class and ethnicity.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107775.html (858 words)

	Pakistan News PakTribune.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Miss Sammy, if you're trying to proof that ISLAM is not a good religion, then I can assure you that you're wasting your time over here rather than you can have a drink in a pub like you do in your culture.
		They did all those things in the name of ISLAM but in reality that was not Islam but instead that was their own Barbaric Law.
		Islam today is the Fastest growing religion on the planet and the most number of conversions taking place are in USA and Canada.
	www.paktribune.com /speakout/comments.php?id=5000 (521 words)

	The Religion of Islam - How to Convert to Islam and Become a Muslim
		Upon entering the fold of Islam purely for the Pleasure of God, all of one’s previous sins are forgiven, and one starts a new life of piety and righteousness.
		I suggest that we use and propagate the notion of "revert" to Islam because every human being is born as a Muslim.
		Islam with a different philosophy is spreading across the continents with such temerity and stupendous strength that I realise that islam is the best religion which will win the race with thousands of converts every month in India.
	www.islamreligion.com /articles/204 (4354 words)

	Law.com - Putting Islam on the Stand
		But when it comes to the religion of Islam and how it is being portrayed in court, he says, it is a different matter.
		Another is the use of expert witnesses to school jurors in the history of Islam, much like a prosecutor might use an expert witness to provide background on the Mafia in an organized-crime case.
		In the Timimi case, prospective jurors were asked nearly a dozen questions related to religion, including their personal religious preference, the religion they were raised in, and how often they attend religious services.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1120727114514 (1890 words)

	Mauritius Hotels, Hotels in Mauritius. Luxury accommodation in Mauritius
		Mauritius will enchant you, will uplift your soul, making you feel that you belong to the chosen few.
		Mauritius, a melting pot where past and present are smoothly blended together, offers an essential beauty that will compel to return to its shores time and time again.
		Mauritius has "belonged" to the Dutch, then French, then British before being granted independence in 1968 and officially becoming a republic in 1992.
	cybercapetown.com /MauritiusHotels (1063 words)

	1000Countries.com: Mauritius III: mauritius, MAURITIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mauritius is building itself a cyber city to diversify its economy and keep pace with technology.
		Mauritius — "The land of paradise on the Indian Ocean" Located at the cross-roads of Africa, Mauritius tours brings for you undeniably exciting and memorable honeymoon holidays, with exciting tour...
		Mauritius is evocative of an island of powery white beaches lapped by limpid pale blue lagoons, palm trees...
	www.1000countries.com /countries_of_the_world/mauritius_3.html (2751 words)

	The Five Pillars of Islam
		The Five Pillars of Islam are the basis of the Islamic religion.
		The statement of faith, regular prayer, fasting, charity, and the pilgrimage may not all be equally important to one another, but they should all be followed by every Muslim if he or she is able.
		Some may not be as successful as others in fulfilling the Five Pillars of Islam, but all Muslims do their best to participate in what they can.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/MidEast/04/kenney/kenney.htm (1394 words)

	Adherents.com
		In the twelfth century, Maldives converted to Islam, and today the country is 100 per cent Sunni Muslim.
		Islam is the religion of the state and the backbone of society.
		Mauritania's Constitutional Charter of 1985 declared Islam to be the state religion.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_343.html (1918 words)

	Islam by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Important note: Population counts by religious affiliation, like most demographic characteristics of a population, are based upon statistical science and subject to observational error and are technically referred to as estimates.
		Articles about Islam in Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, and Ecuador
		This page was last modified 21:14, 10 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islam_by_country (282 words)

	Islam and Modernity
		That is a total of twenty-two or 40 percent of the OIC (Afghanistan has long been classified as a ‘Totalitarian Regime’).
		In the 2003 Freedom House survey at least thirty of the 56 OIC member states were classified as being ‘Not Free’; 53 percent of the total membership.
		"paranoid Islam, which blames outsiders, ‘infidels’ for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity....
	www.ntpi.org /html/modernity.html (893 words)

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