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Stefan Härtel
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Eddie's best friend
Jul 1999 time: 06:27
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Malaysia is Islamic, as is a great part of Indonesia. But you definately shouldn't group all Asians as Islamic, that'd be a horrible mistake. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore etc aren't Islamic, for example (and that's only a small selection)
China has a large Islamic minority, but the vast majority of people there are Buddhists, Lamaists (a fraction of Buddhism), Taoists and Confucians. The Japanese are mostly Buddhist and Shintoist...
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Stefan Härtel
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Eddie's best friend
Jul 1999 time: 06:27
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To make it short :
99% of the Persian (Iranian) population are Muslims. 90% are Shi'ites, the rest being Sunnites (mostly Kurds, who are centred around Tabriz, but also populate parts of the Zagros region). The original (that is, pre-Islamic) faith of Persia, Zoroastrianism, is practiced in some small communities in the south; it is nowadays centred in Mumbai (Bombay), much to the dismay of local authorities (there is a nice anecdote of some official who is being annoyed by the towers of silence, where the Zoroastrians "bury" their dead -they leave them on towers to let the vultures get them-); you will also find some Christian communities in Iran, some of which are very old (during Roman times, the Persian Empire was a point of refuge to the Christians, though most only went to Mesopotamia); although Iran is strictly a Shi'ite state, only one faith, the Baha'i, is banned (propably because it's too heretic).
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