To: donntonn2
Muslim country?
No such thing.
Preponderance of occupants "claiming" to follow one of many flavors of Islam, but ya' won't find a Muslim national flag, currency, etc.
And just like over here, folks who say they are of a religion might be found elsewhere at the traditional church/prayer time. Part time devotees.
19 posted on
04/30/2002 5:41:32 PM PDT by
AzJP
To: AzJP
You commented that "And just like over here, folks who say they are of a religion might be found elsewhere at the traditional church/prayer time ... " I am so glad that someone said that! Pious Arabs, in my experience, often have a sort of folk religion - based on a set of attitudes and a habit of repeating religious phrases - rather like the popular level Baptist influenced people of the south of the USA. They tend to be believers, and they call upon God, but they just knock about in life with their own values, as best they can. When the Islamic fundamentalists come in, they find that they have to re-educate everyone. And people say to them "yes, yes ... " but they are not always convinced.
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