A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population (October 2009 - Executive Summary)

A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion.

While Muslims are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more than half of the 20 countries and territories1 in that region have populations that are approximately 95% Muslim or greater.

More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world's Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India, for example, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. China has more Muslims than Syria, while Russia is home to more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined.

Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.

These are some of the key findings of Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population, a new study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life. The report offers the most up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the size and distribution of the worldwide Muslim population, including sectarian identity.

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http://www.pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=451

A Wonderful post about English Language

You have to read On the edge 's post

Dazed And Confused For Days !

Graffiti فنٌ على الجدران

Graffiti is drawings or words that are scratched, painted, or sprayed on walls or other surfaces in public places. it's originally an Italian word , this type of art started since the Romans Era , ancient Romes used to scatter their messaged to the public on walls when they wanted to announce something.

الرسم على الجدران ( جرافيتي) هي من مسماها رسم على الجدران سواء كانت كلمات أو روسوم بالدهان أو الرش التسمية الانجليزية من أصل إيطالي، حيث كانت بداية فن الجرافيتي منذ عصر الدولة الرةمانية القديمة ، حيث كانت الكنابة على الجدران هي وسيلة الإعلان لإيصال أي رسالة إلى عامة الشعب. فلم يكن في ذلك الزمان تلفاز أو راديو و إلخ من وسائل الإعلان المتوفرة في زمننا هذا.

بانكسي ، فنان رسم على الجدران بريطاني، له أعمال عديدة حول مدن في المملكة المتحدة ، و نقلت هنا بعضاً من الأعمال اللتي أعجبتني وتميزت عن غيرها لدي

Banksy is a britich graffiti artist who have so many wonderful works around cities in UK.. these some of what I like

Banksy Rat stencil

Banksy - Looters, New Orleans

Banksy Abraham Lincoln, New Orleans

Banksy Girl with heart ballon

Banksy 'Buddha', Cans Festival

Logan Hicks 'Self Portrait', Cans Festival

Inspired by NΛ¥EŁI recent post

A global flu pandemic

The swine flu virus first show up in Mexico in April and since then spread to 74 countries. and now, as most of you would know already, it's announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting.
In libya, as I read on the libyan news sites, that they have a special committie taking care of this and working on having the needed precautions, so many questions pops in my mind, first, what are they doing as precautions? honestly I don't trust they are doing enough, and this is a personal opinion, and i might be and i hope wrong, second, we may have cases here in Libya , are all doctors in hospitals and ER & general medicine especially aware of all the information needed? we don't usually trust our doctors diagnoses, usually it's 60% correct only , how can we risk the 40% with a killing disease spreading around us? , also , no activites to educate the residents and if there is any, it's good enough , because it didn't reach me.

will this be the fashion of winter 2009?

I wonder, where is this taking us? and terrified about it, especially that I will have to travel soon .. May Allah keep you all safe.

Bing .com ... Search Engine محرك بحث

Bing vs Google

I've tried Bing.com from Microsoft as search engine , and I think you should try it too.

محرك البحث من مايكروسوفت ، تجربة مختلفة ... جربوه و قولو رأيكم

http://hebatech.blogspot.com/2009/06/bing-vs-google.html

الواثقون

والمقصود بالواثقون الناس اللي تتطاول بالكلمات على الإنترنت مثلا في رسالة على أحد المواقع الاجتماعية اللي أغلبنا مشترك فيها ، اليوم وصلتني رسالة من واحد، بكل ثقة يقولي (هيبو كيف حالك؟) و لما ما رديتش عليه بعت اللي بعدها يقول (وينك يا عيوني؟) ، مع وجودي على الشبكة الاكترونية لفترة طويلة لكن أنا مازال مش قادرة نستوعب هالناس !! .. هل هو اعتقاد سائد أن كل من على الإنترنت يبحث عن علاقات عابرة و الكلام المعسول و الصور و ما إلى ذلك. و لما هذا الاعتقاد سائد عند أغلب العرب؟؟؟ المشكلة إني لو فتحت حوار مع أحد من هذا النوع، فإنه يتوقع مني إني نتصرف كأنه صديق عزيز أو حبيب قديم، و مافيش بيناتنا أسرار، و ما ينفعش نقول لا.... لا و ألف لا طبعاً.

هل التواصل عبر الإنترنت أطاح بكل الأصول و الآداب؟ هل التواصل عبر الإنترنت يبيح المحظورات؟

ما عندي ما نقول غير اللهم احفظنا و اهديهم و كبر عقولهم.

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