Religions
- Islam: 99.7% of the total population
- Sunni Muslim: 80-89%
- Shi'a Muslim: 10-19%
- Other: less than 1%
- Sikhism: In the thousands
- Hinduism: In the thousands
- Zoroastrianism: Unknown
- Christianity: In the thousands
- Judaism (one known individual: Zablon Simintov)
- Buddhism: Unknown
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Famous quotes containing the word religions:
“Those who believe in their truth—the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men—leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organisation. For the latter makes use of violence, the former—of the corruption of the will.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)