Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Muslim Population in Ukraine

Pew Research says that these are 393,000 Muslims in Ukraine.
Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine says that there are 2 million Muslims in Ukraine.
Which one is correct?
Like a woman's age (if we might use such a phrase) Muslim population of any country is a closely guarded secret.
Between four hundred thousand and two million there a difference of factor of five.

Tailpieces (1): How many Crimean Tatar Muslims died in of hunger and disease in Stalinist Russia from 1944-1945?
Answer : Forty five percent of them.
(2) Islamiyat  (Russian to English Google translation of a website.)