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| 2004-05-25 |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #4 ZF, You are right. According to the CIA World Fact book on China: Religions: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4% note: officially atheist (2002 est.) That comes to about 12-25M Muslims, which jibes with: http://www.berzinarchives.com/islam/history_hui_muslims_china.html According to the 1990 census, the Muslim population of the People's Republic of China is 17.6 million, out of which there were 8.6 million Hui, 7.2 million Uighur, 1.1 million Kazakhs, 375,000 Kyrghyz, 33,500 Tajik, and 14,500 Uzbeks. The Hui primarily speak Chinese, the Tajik an Indo-European language related to Persian, and all the others Turkic dialects. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-05-25 10:02:58 AM |
| #3 ed: The ethnic Uygur population of China, according to the 1990 national census, totalled 7.207 million people. Thus the Uygurs are, following the Zhuang, the Hui, Manchurian (Man), and the Miao, China's fifth largest minority ethnic group. The Hui are Muslim. The Chinese expression for Islam translates loosely as "the religion of the Hui". |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-05-25 9:49:29 AM |
| #2 US 9.7M? China 76M? I call BS. The most comprehensive survey of the Muslim population in the US gives about 2M, with a high side bias of about 3M (2001). And that's including the Nation of Islam, whose members would probably be beheaded in Arabia for aposty. Also the Nigerian number (75%) is too high (about 50%), the German number (2.8M) looks about right, while the French number (1.8M) is too low. U.S. Muslim Population Figures Examined (2001) "The average number being cited by the media at present – 6.7 million Muslims – is 2.4 to 3.6 times greater than the best available estimates, which are 1.9 million to 2.8 million," concludes Dr. Tom W. Smith, who authored the study, "Estimating the Muslim Population in the United States." ... "The best adjusted, survey-based estimate puts the total Muslim population at 1,876,000," writes Dr. Smith. http://www.uygurworld.com/_sgg/m3m1_1.htm The ethnic Uygur population of China, according to the 1990 national census, totalled 7.207 million people. Thus the Uygurs are, following the Zhuang, the Hui, Manchurian (Man), and the Miao, China's fifth largest minority ethnic group. It is estimated based on the 2000 that the Uighur population now, in 2004, would be in the vicinity of 8.25-8.5 million |
| Posted by: ed 2004-05-25 7:33:09 AM |
| #1 10 million ROPists in the US? Very funny... |
| Posted by: someone 2004-05-25 6:34:12 AM |