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An estimated 90 percent of Malians are Muslim, mostly Sunni belonging to Maliki school of jurisprudence influenced with Sufism. Ahmadiyya and Shia minorities are also present.〔 The constitution establishes a secular state and provides for freedom of religion, and the government largely respects this right.〔 Relations between Muslims and practitioners of minority religious faiths are generally amicable, and foreign missionary groups (both Muslim and non-Muslim) are tolerated.〔 Because of the 2012 imposition of Sharia rule in northern parts of the country however, Mali was listed high (#7) in the Christian persecution index published by Open Doors which described the persecution in the north as severe.〔(Report points to 100 million persecuted Christians. ) Retrieved on 10 January 2013. 〕〔(OPEN DOORS World Watch list 2012 ). Worldwatchlist.us. Retrieved on 2013-01-18.〕 In spite of this, a 2015 study estimated some 8,000 believers in Christ from a Muslim background in the country. Implementation of Sharia included banning of music, with groups showing up randomly in villages, armed with weaponry, to burn musical instruments and musical items. One guitarist was threatened that his fingers would be chopped off if he ever showed his face in one town again. Other rules such as cutting off hands or feet of thieves, stoning of adulterers and public whipping of smokers, alcohol drinkers and women who are not properly dressed were also implemented. 〔 However, the occupation and Sharia law were both short-lived, cut short by a French and Chadian military intervention that began in January 2013. See Northern Mali Conflict. In 2012 several Islamic sites in Mali were destroyed or damaged by vigilante activists linked to Al Qaeda, claiming that "idol worship" characterized the sites. Given the cultural and religious importance of the sites in the city of Timbuctu (Tomboctou), 8 of the shrines on the UNESCO heritage list had been fully reconstructed, and another 6 were in the process of reconstruction, by July 2015. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.essor.ml/tombouctou-mme-irina-bokova-inaugure-les-mausolees-rehabilites.html )〕 ==See also== *Islam in Mali *Roman Catholicism in Mali 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「Religion in Mali」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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