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1.
Islam in Liberia
[By
WIKIPEDIA]
Islam in Liberia is practiced by 20% of the population. The vast
majority of Liberian Muslims are Sunni, with only a few Shi'ites, mostly of
Lebanese origin. The primary Muslim ethnic groups are the Vai and Mandingo.
Muslims first came to what is now Liberia between the 11th century.
America-Liberian Methodists, the first Christians in Liberia, arrived on
January 7, 1822. |
2.
Liberia: Islam, Music & religious change in Liberia
[A
case study from vai Country By Lester Monts]
Islam in Liberia is practiced by 20% of the population. The vast majority of
Liberian Muslims are Sunni, with only a few Shi'ites, mostly of Lebanese
origin. The primary Muslim ethnic groups are the Vai and Mandingo. Muslims
first came to what is now Liberia between the 11th century. America-Liberian
Methodists, the first Christians in Liberia, arrived on January 7, 1822. |
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3.Liberian Head of State’s wife
speaks
[By
International Islamic News Agency(IINA)]
The wife of the Liberian Head of State, who is an activist for Islam,
Madame Fatma Taylor, has said that the Muslims in her country do need help
from their Muslim brethren in other parts of the world, because they are
being constantly subject to Christian missionary attempts to draw them away
from their Islamic religion. She said the missionaries take advantage of the
people’s poverty, and they have already scored some successes in this
respect.
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4.Liberian Muslims and the African Napoleon
[By
Sabir
Abdellatif ,islamOnline(IOL)]
The whole
world has recently been preoccupied with Liberia and the bloody civil war
there, but nobody referred to, or even hinted at, the political position of
Liberian Muslims and their role in the war.
Even in the
Muslim world, very few know that 25% of the Liberian population are Muslims
who have established a great civilization embellished with four centuries of
glories!
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5.
Muslim Youth Group Joins Kafumbah
Konneh's Stance
[by
allafrica.com,18 December 2008]
The National Muslim Students Association of Liberia (NAMSAL) has said that
it will not honor the ultimatum given by the Monrovia City Corporation and
Council relative to the painting of homes and businesses in the city by this
weekend.
The move by the group comes few days after an official of the National
Muslim Council of Liberia, Sheik Kafumbah Konneh said he will not paint his
house because by doing so would suggest a belief in Christmas, which is
observed by Christians.
In a press release issued yesterday, the group terms its action as "a
campaign of civil disobedience" to this mandate.
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6.
Religious
Affiliation and Ethnicity
[By
globalsecurity.org]
The
lack of precise information
on religious affiliation and commitment in Liberia is reflected in the
conflict between a statement in the World Christian Encyclopedia that
"traditional religions are the living faith of well over half the
population" and a table in the same source showing that just under one half
of the population adhered to tribal religions in 1970.
The text is likely to be more accurate than the
table. In the same table, 31 percent of the population is said to consist of
professing Christians, but that includes two categories: affiliated
Christians (about 19 percent of the total population) and nominal Christians
(about 11 percent). Because it was not uncommon in some situations for
indigenous people to say that they were Christians, many in the category of
nominal Christians may be said more accurately to be adherents of indigenous
religions. In its table of religious adherents, the encyclopedia gives the
proportion of Muslims in 1970 as 19 percent but as 8 percent at one point in
its text. Some observers claim, however, that Muslims were increasing in the
1970s and 1980s at a faster rate than Christians and may, in fact, outnumber
them. |
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