Blacks from Mali, Nigeria and Senegal are mostly Sunnite Muslims, but do not make up more than 1-2 % of the population.

There are six traditional articles of faith among Muslims, consisting of belief in:

Not all Muslims are in agreement on the use of art in religious observance, the proper place of art in society, or the relation between secular art and the demands placed on the secular world to conform to religious precepts.

* 1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.

They are largely Sunni Muslims, in contrast to the Hazara, who are mostly Shias.

There are separate laws governing Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and followers of other religions.

There are also some Protestants, Bahá ' ís and Muslims.

Due to the large Muslim population in western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to, or are run by, Muslims.

Most Chinese regard Hui Halal food as cleaner than food made by non Muslims so their restaurants are popular in China.

Jews, Muslims, and members of other faiths, then, are expected to convert to Christianity in the afterlife.

* 2009 – 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

Some Muslims, however, are known as Jebertis, although they are not recognized as a separate ethnicity.

In conformity with the two parts of his book, his personality and his preaching are alike twofold, and the title Zul-Kifl means " the one of double " Aside from the possible identification of Zul-Kifl with Ezekiel, Muslims have viewed Ezekiel as a prophet, regardless of his identification with Zul-Kifl.

Zakat or alms-giving is the practice of charitable giving by Muslims based on accumulated wealth, and is obligatory for all who are able to do so.

Muslims must abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk during this month, and are to be especially mindful of other sins.

During Ramadan, Muslims are also expected to put more effort into following the teachings of Islam by refraining from violence, anger, envy, greed, lust, profane language, gossip and to try to get along with fellow Muslims better.

In the Qur ' an, it is stated that ( 2: 62 ): " Surely, those who believe, those who are Muslims, Jewish, the Christians, and the Sabians ; anyone who ( 1 ) believes in GOD, and ( 2 ) believes in the Last Day, and ( 3 ) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from their Lord.

The four schools ( or Madh ' hab ) of Sunni Muslims are each named by students of the classical jurist who taught them.

Fatwās generally contain the details of the scholar's reasoning, typically in response to a particular case, and are considered binding precedent by those Muslims who have bound themselves to that scholar, including future muftis ; mere rulings can be compared to memorandum opinions.

They are issued in response to questions by ordinary Muslims, and go unnoticed by those not concerned, while the much smaller number of fatwā issued on controversial subjects, such as war, jihad, and dhimmis ( particularly by extremist preachers ), sometimes get wide coverage in the media because of their political content ( see examples below ).

50 % are Muslims — this makes Guinea-Bissau the only Portuguese-speaking nation with a Muslim majority and most Muslims are Sunnis ; 40 % are pagans, principally Fula and Mandinka.

However, i ' thar is also still an Islamic ideal to which all Muslims should strive to adhere at all times.

It is a popular Buddhist and Hindu name, but popular also among Muslims in Indonesia.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

During 1992 and 1993, Croatia also handled an estimated 700, 000 refugees from Bosnia, mainly Bosnian Muslims.

However, there is also a minority view within some Muslims that capital punishment is not justified in the light of Qur ' an.

The invading Muslims besieged the city of Toulouse, then Aquitaine's most important city, and Odo ( also called Eudes, or Eudo ) immediately left to find help.

The Ismaili Muslims also stress a distinction between the inner and the outer.

Together with Loyola and five others, he founded the Society of Jesus: on 15 August 1534, in a small chapel in Montmartre, they made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and also vowed to convert the Muslims in the Middle East ( or, failing this, carry out the wishes of the Pope ).

In the United States, private or cultural intolerance of women wearing the hijab ( Islamic headcovering ) and political activism by Muslims also has been labeled " secular fundamentalism " by some Muslims in the U. S.

The Christian kingdoms to the North had also, at times, treated Muslims harshly.

Over the following decades, Muslims faced the same fate and about 60 years after the Jews, they were also compelled to convert (" moriscos ") or be expelled.

Hobart also has smaller communities of Hindus, Muslims and Bahá ' í, with a Bahá ' í Centre of Learning, located within the city.

Along with the desire for independence, tensions between Hindus and Muslims had also been developing over the years.

Hausa is also widely spoken by non-native Gur and Mande Ghanaian Muslims, but differs from Gaananci, and rather has features consistent with non-native Hausa dialects.

The Council of Europe also created the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, which has produced country reports and several general policy recommendations, for instance against anti-Semitism and intolerance against Muslims.

The Congress may be viewed as the most secular party with a national agenda ; however, it also practices votebank politics to gain the support of minorities, especially Muslims, through appeasement and pseudo-secularist strategies.

Qutb preached that Muslims must engage in a two-pronged attack of converting individuals while also waging jihad to forcibly eliminate the " structures " of Jahiliyya – not only from the Islamic homeland but from the face of the earth.

Muslims also believe in " the punishment of the grave ," which supposedly takes place between death and the resurrection.

For example, they had to pay the jizya, a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males, and they were also forbidden to bear arms or testify in court cases involving Muslims.

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.