Talk:Islam in Suriname

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According to the latest census(2004) there are 66.307 muslims in Suriname out of a population of 492.829 or about 13.45 per cent of the population.Source is the site: www.statistics-suriname.org

• Ok, I've adjusted the article and cited the source. Thanks for your help. Fightindaman 19:57, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

This important FACT was deleted. Its reference as well. In its place, someone's only contribution to Wikipedia put in an interesting story, only corroborated by a quote from the Jamestown Foundation. Sounds like a clear example of vandalism to me, and I would be tempted to be bold and just revert to your version, even though that one is almost a year old now. Crazy.

Even worse: the allegation that the percentage of muslims in Suriname has gone down because of emigration to the Netherlands is dead wrong as well: in 1975, 25,000 muslims arrived in the Netherlands from Suriname. In 1985, the number of muslims of Surinamese origin in the Netherlands had gone down to 16,000! (Source: http://www.aartboekee.nl/De%20Islam.htm - in Dutch, but a source sympathetic to Islam, so should be treated as objective) The number of Dutch of Surinamese origin is generally estimated to be between 300,000 and 350,000. That puts the percentage of muslims among those leaving at somewhere between a maximum of 8.3 or a minimum of 4.6% (compare that to the 20% quoted here and the real 13% figure - so the muslims were more numerous among those staying). Note that most sources estimate the number of muslims among the Hindustani group in Suriname at no more than 10% (check the Dutch Suriname article, for instance). So, nice story about the boat, but not very representative of Suriname or even Islam in Suriname. And of course, there is no real source for this story. In other words, it is time for a clean-up. If nothing happens here in the next few days, I AM reverting. That is much better than adding POV and non-referenced flags.--Pan Gerwazy 18:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)