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Islam is the second largest religion in Belgium, practiced by an estimated 5-6% of the total population.〔http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/table-religious-composition-by-country-in-percentages/〕〔name="Special Eurobarometer 393 ">''(Discrimination in the European Union in 2012 )'' p. 233,234.〕 98% of the Belgian Muslims belong to the Sunni denomination, the rest are Shia (mainly Alevi). In Brussels Muslims cover 25.5% of the population, in Wallonia 4.0%, and 3.9% in Flanders. 〔 Jan Hertogen, (In België wonen 628.751 moslims ), Indymedia, September 12, 2008 〕 ==Population== A 2011 estimation by Belgian academic Jan Hertogen shows that more than 900,000 people have a foreign background from Islamic countries. A 2008 estimation shows〔 Jan Hertogen, (In België wonen 628.751 moslims ), Indymedia, September 12, 2008 〕 that 6% of the Belgian population, about 628,751, is Muslim, either Sunni, Shia, Alevi, and a small population of Ahmadi. Muslims cover 25.5% of the population of Brussels, 4.0% of Wallonia and 3.9% of Flanders. The majority of Belgian Muslims live in the major cities, such as Antwerp, Brussels and Charleroi. According to estimates released in 2007 by sociologist Jan Hertogen, the largest group of immigrants in Belgium, numbering 264,974, are Moroccans. The Turks are the third-largest group, and the second-largest Muslim ethnic group, numbering 159,336. These estimates are criticized by the General Direction of Statistics and Economical Information (former National Institute for Statistics) because he simply added the global number of naturalized people without taking into account those who died or remigrated afterwards.〔('Voor het eerst meer Marokkaanse dan Italiaanse migranten' (''For the first time more Moroccan than Italian migrants''), Het Belang van Limburg, May 21, 2007 )〕 Other nationalities represented are mostly Arabs, Pakistanis and West Africans. No accurate numbers can be given as religious or ethnic censuses are forbidden in Belgium, and most people with roots in Islamic countries (including Christian Assyrian refugees from Turkey) took the Belgian nationality, their children born in Belgium are more and more born as Belgian citizens and thence do not appear in any statistics. Moroccan and Turkish immigrants began coming in large numbers to Belgium starting in the 1960s as guest workers. Though the guest-worker program was abolished in 1974, many immigrants stayed and brought their families using family reunification laws. Today the Muslim community continues to grow through marriage migration. More than 60% of Moroccan and Turkish youth marry partners from their home countries. Since 2009, Mohamed is the most popular given name in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium's two largest cities.〔http://statbel.fgov.be/nl/binaries/BRO09725-N_tcm325-81232.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islam in Belgium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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