Talk:Religion in Egypt

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The article is meant to give an overview of religious life in Egypt. Unless the prolems facing all religious groups are discussed, posting detailed and specific grievances concerning a particular group on this page is inappropriate. Hussein M Allam 16:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

The title of this article is Religion in Egypt, and based on that title a whole bunch of things can (and should) be included about religion in Egypt. Things like religious life in Egypt, and also the condition of religious populations in Egypt, and general views of the population and the government about religion and religions in Egypt. The article does so, with some sections clearly being stubs. But Wikipedia does not remove content because some other content is missing; instead the process clearly involves editors adding content where it is underrepresented. Furthermore this article is definitely not long enough for it to invovke the Wikipedia:Summary style, where content is moved to other articles. In fact this article is a really a subsection of the Egypt article, which neccessitates going into detail about religion which cannot be discussed in the main Egypt article. -- Jeff3000 14:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia has a verifiability policy that requires statements in the text to have a reliable source back them up. Now some sources may have the Muslim population at 80%, but until those sources have been cited, the article cannot refer to them. Note that google searches in and of themselves are not sources. Regards, -- Jeff3000 21:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

-- People..... There is no official statistics about the no. of muslims or christians in egypt. It's all estimates by individual organizations. Anyone who says anything otherwise is not being honest. NO ONE CAN PROVE THE EXACT PERCENTAGE. This was said by the Egyptian General responsible for the 2007 census in Egypt. This was in an interview in Al Dustur newspaper when people demanded and insisted on knowing these numbers, where he said "data was incomplete, so I CANNOT give any figures". The world fact book puts the figures at 90% muslims and 10% coptic (Egyptian orthodox and catholic) christians. This is clearly not the case as egyptian authorities clarified once again because the are no such figures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.10.86.18 (talk) 13:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)