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Islam in Denmark being the country's largest minority religion plays an important role in shaping its social and religious landscape. According to the U.S. Department of State, approximately 3.7% of the population in Denmark is Muslim.〔http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127307.htm〕 Other sources, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, cite lower percentages.〔()〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The World Factbook )〕 However, according to figures reported by the BBC,〔Other sources show some variation on these figures. For example, the 2010 Report on International Religious Freedom - Denmark gives a figure of about 200,000. See: (A report at the UNHCR website )〕 about 270 thousand Muslims live in Denmark (4.8% out of a population of 5.6 million〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Population in Denmark )〕). Majority of Muslims in Denmark are Sunni, with sizeable Shia minoritie.〔http://pakistan.um.dk/en/info-about-denmark/muslims-in-denmark/〕 Other Islamic denominations represented in Denmark include Ahmadiyya. In the 1970s Muslims arrived from Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco and the former Yugoslavia to work. In the 1980s and 90s the majority of Muslim arrivals were refugees and asylum seekers from Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Bosnia.〔 In addition, some ethnic Danes have converted to Islam; an estimated 2,800 Danes have converted and about seventy Danes convert every year. ==History and background== Religious freedom is guaranteed by law in Denmark, and as of 2005, nineteen different Muslim religious communities had status as officially recognized religious societies, which gives them certain tax benefits. However, unlike the majority of countries in the West, Denmark lacks separation of church and state, resulting in economic advantages for the Church of Denmark not shared by Muslim or other minority communities, although they are compensated by tax benefit. During the 1980s and 1990s a number of Muslim asylum seekers came to Denmark. In the 1980s mostly from Iran, Iraq, Gaza and the West Bank and in the 1990s mostly from Somalia and Bosnia. The asylum seekers comprise about 40% of the Danish Muslim population.〔 Previously, the majority of Muslims who immigrated to Denmark did so as part of family reunification. The Danish parliament has passed a law in 2002 making family reunification harder. It was also implemented to counter forced marriages by ensuring that both parties are at least 24 years old and so considered old enough to enter a marriage without being forced to do so. The new law requires the couple to both be above the age of 24 and requires the resident spouse to show capacity to support both persons of the couple. 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 Denmark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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