Islam in Solomon Islands is a minority religion practiced by a few hundred people in a mostly Christian country. Through 2010 the opening reported the Finance Minister's claim that Islamic militants from Indonesia had tried recruiting young Solomon Islanders for training camps in Indonesia. Today the opening covers only the religion's arrival and its Ahmadiyya and Sunni branches, and militant appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now learns when Islam reached the Solomon Islands and not the recruitment claim the opening once reported.
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The United States Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report states that according to the most recent reports, there are approximately 350 Muslims in the Solomon Islands .1When the deadly Solomons tsunami crashed through Gizo and Western Province killing 53 people and displacing thousands of villagers, the international Muslim Aid organization quickly dispatched medical teams and supplies for the affected areas and islanders embraced this aid as much as any other. Radio SIBC reported in July 2005 claims made by the countries’ Finance Minister Peter Boyers, that Islamic militants from Indonesia had tried recruiting young Solomon Islanders for training camps in Indonesia. The Minister said that Solomon Islands Muslim groups were against radical Islam and refused the request, something supported by Felix Narasia of the Islamic Society of Solomon Islands. Narasia said the Islamic Society denounces any recruitment of Solomon Island youth for such purposes, saying such contacts were “illegal” and outside the Islamic Society of Solomon Islands.2
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Islam is a minority religion in the Solomon Islands .The religion first entered the country in 1987, when a Ghanaian missionary, belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect visited visited Guadalcanal island on a reconnaissance trip lasting three years.Today, there are two major denominations in the country - Ahmadi Muslims and Sunni Muslims .According to a 2007 report by the United States Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report, there are approximately 350 Muslims in the country.However, different reports suggest that there may be 1000 Ahmadi Muslims in the country alone.Australian Journal of International Affairs . 62 (3).Department of State. : Check |url= value ( help )
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Islam is a minority religion in the Solomon Islands . The religion first entered the country in 1987, when a Ghanaian missionary belonging to the Ahmadiyya movement visited Guadalcanal island on a reconnaissance trip lasting three years. Today, there are two major denominations in the country - Ahmadi Muslims and Sunni Muslims . According to a 2007 report by the United States Department of State 's International Religious Freedom Report , there are approximately 350 Muslims in the country. However, different reports suggest that there may be 1000 Ahmadi Muslims in the country alone. Australian Journal of International Affairs . 62 (3).
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Solomon Islands is an overwhelmingly Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a minuscule minority.Because of the secular nature of the country's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. Islam first entered the country in 1987, when a Ghanaian missionary belonging to the Ahmadiyya movement visited Guadalcanal on a reconnaissance trip lasting three years. Today, there are two major Islamic branches in the country, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Sunni Islam . According to a 2007 report by the United States Department of State 's International Religious Freedom Report , there are approximately 350 Muslims in the country. However, the Australian Journal of International Affairs suggests that there may be as many as 1,000 Ahmadiyya in the country alone, or 0.14% of the population. Australian Journal of International Affairs . 62 (3).
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Solomon Islands is an overwhelmingly Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a minuscule minority. Because of the secular nature of the country's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The arrival of the Islamic Religion in the country can be traced back to the early 1980s.Ahmadiyya, however, first reached Solomon Islands probably in 1987, when a Ghanaian missionary by the name of Al-Hajj Hafiz Ahmad Jibreel Saeed, belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, visited Guadalcanal on a reconnaissance trip lasting three years.Today, there are two major Islamic branches (sect) in the country, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and Sunni Islam . According to a 2007 report by the United States Department of State 's International Religious Freedom Report , there are approximately 350 Muslims in the country. However, in 2008, an article in the Australian Journal of International Affairs suggested that there may be as many as 1,000 Ahmadiyya in the country alone, or 0.14% of the population. Australian Journal of International Affairs . 62 (3).
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