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Inaccuracies in South America

Guyana and Suriname belong in the 10%-19% level, not their current 0%-9%. See Islam in Guyana and Islam in Suriname. Picaroon (t) 02:55, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

You are quite correct about the information for Guyana and Suriname. I'm not sure how I missed those two countries' sizable Muslim communities. The map has been duly altered. I erred on the side of caution and put Suriname in the 20% range as the CIA Factbook lists Suriname's Muslim community has being 19.6% of the population Konchevnik81 16:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Greenland

I think Greenland is obviously going to be in the 0-9% category. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.71.132.20 (talk) 22:31:20, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

Greenland is a self-governing region in union with Denmark. To me this makes its status in international rankings difficult, especially as it is (among other things) technically part of an EU member-state, but not in the EU itself. It's international affiliations aside, it has a relatively small population, and in the absence of reliable data I would rather not make calls about its population makeup, or even worse confuse its population figures with those of Denmark as a whole. The same goes for other small island states, or insular dependent territories. What is the Muslim population of St. Lucia? Or of Montserrat? Probably in the 0-9% range, but in the absence of clear data, and with such a small population, I'd rather not be the one to assign categories to such island territories and states. Konchevnik81 16:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Greenland is not in union with Denmark, it is a territory with internal home rule and with a population of c. 60,000. The figure is in the very low part of the 0-1% range. It would have been headline news if even 1% of Greenland's population had become Muslim, and before now I've never heard anybody citing any number for Greenland at all. I did a little googling, and came up with one Dane mentioning a conversation with a Muslim in Greenland [1] and two other blogs with comments like "there is at least one Muslim in Greenland". In any case, the demographics of Denmark and Greenland are completely different. Greenland's population if 86% inuit and 14% Danish. Denmark's is 90%+ Danish. Valentinian ^{T / C} 12:44, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Albania?

Isn't Albania something like 70% Muslim? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.6.12.114 (talk) 01:57, August 21, 2007 (UTC)

Correct, the map has been updated.Konchevnik81 16:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Andorra and Liechtenstein

The Islam in Liechetnstein article states that the estimated Muslim population is about 4%. Andorra is less clear, but very unlikely to be above 10%. Alexwoods 19:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Over % 90 of people in Turkey are Sun'i Moslems?

Acording the artlicle Islam in turkey there is about 15 million Alevi moslems (they are on Shia side of Islam) in Turkey which means about %20 of whole population. So how is it possible that on that map, more than %90 of people in Turkey are Sun'i 's ? --Cemyildiz 09:26, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

This map only indicates an estimate at the total percentage of Muslim adherents in a country's population, whether they are Sunni , Shia, or members of any number of Sufi organizations. If you notice, Iran, like Turkey, is shown as having a 90%+ Muslim population - the majority of the population there is Sunni. Other sects, such as the Yazidi, Druze the Alawi of Syria or the Alevi of Turkey, admittedly are not universally considered to be part of the Muslim population. However, members of these other faiths are not always distinguishable from the larger Muslim community, and so many statistics (rightly or wrongly) include them in the totals for the Muslim population.

I should also note, after viewing what has been to the "Christianity by country" map, that this map does NOT attempt in any way to indicate any sort of intensity of belief - ie, whether individuals are in fact secular, or non-religious, or obsrevant, or highly religious. These rough percentages are meant to give an indication of the size of a country's ethnic-cultural-religious community that is traditionally associated with some form of Islam. Konchevnik81 11:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

France & Kazakhstan percantage

According to the article of Islam in France there are under 10% of Muslims living in France, it is in between 4-5% of Muslims so I have changed the percentage on the map, including Kazakhstan according to the 2005 data in the country article, there are 53% of Muslims in Kazakhstan. Moshino31 (talk) 16:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello. You have a valid point about France - there seems to be extremely conflicting data, and most of it (including studies by the French government) seems to lean towards something like 6-7%, rather than 10+%. I question the statistic on Kazakhstan - the last census lists the ethnic population of Kazakhstan as 53%. Not all Kazakhs are Muslim. There are, of course, other traditionally Muslim peoples in Kazakhstan. Still, while the often-quoted figure of 48% of Kazakhstanis being Muslim is out of date, I would like to see firmer sources than the number quoted on the Kazakhstan page - the 53% Muslim statistic comes from one source, published in Kazakhstan, that is not available online (Dzhalilov, Z. (2006). Islam and Society in Modern Kazakhstan. Almaty: Daik-Press, pp.185.) Of course, since this has been added to the Wikipedia article, many Internet sources now tie to this figure from an offline source. I would argue that Kazakhstan be reverted to its original color until further statistics can be provided. Konchevnik81 (talk) 22:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The map

The map should not be adobted from the Christianity map because in most regions, there are more religions present in the map it is focused on the correct figures of number of Muslims in the world from looking at current statistics of census demography and others. Moshino31 (talk) 19:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not sure I follow. The format and coloring were borrowed from the Christianity map, but each country's statistics on the number of Muslims comes from international sources cited elsewhere in wikipedia. Konchevnik81 (talk) 22:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Russia

A different version this map is hosted on Commons with the same name Commons:Image:Islam percentage by country.png and the main difference seems to be that the author has placed Russia in the 20%+ category. However, the sources indicated hardly support such a conclusion. One has no figure at all (in the publicly accessible part of the article anyway), two mention the number 30 million (and one of these as the high end of a figure). A third source lists 21 million and a fourth is 40 years old. Proper sources would be welcome to get the two maps aligned with each other. Valentinian ^{T / C} 12:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed! Some people seem to be "rounding up"...Konchevnik81 (talk) 22:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)