God was waiting for the moment that I was truly ready to know him. God in his own wisdom and power made you for a reason. Poloma, Margaret M. The Assemblies of God at the Crossroads: Charisma and Institutional Dilemmas. Figures as high as 5% of Thailand’s population have also been mentioned. Substantial Muslim immigration began in the 1970s, and accelerated dramatically over the 1980s to 1990s. In 1980, there were 56,600 Muslims in Switzerland (0.9% of total population). It appeared with the beginning of significant immigration to Europe, after World War II. This ratio quintupled over the following thirty years, notably due to the immigration from Former Yugoslavia during the 1990s Yugoslav War. There are two Swiss mosques which predate 1980 and the rapid increase of immigration of Muslims from the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East over the following decades. It is estimated that there are 260 mosques and prayer rooms with connected services in Switzerland. Today, there are numerous mosques and prayer rooms across the country, predominantly in the urban parts of the Swiss plateau.

As of 2019, the largest concentration of Muslim population is in the German-speaking Swiss plateau. In 2007 the Bern city council rejected plans to build one of the largest Islamic cultural centers in Europe. Thai Muslims are the largest religious minority in the country. Islam is a minority faith in Thailand, with statistics in 2006, suggesting 4.9% of the population are Muslim. There are also significant minority of Muslims in other southern provinces such as Songkhla, Krabi, Trang, Phatthalung and Phuket. There is also a large North African community (most of them are from Tunisia and Morocco) and a significant Middle Eastern community. In Bangkok, large Muslim populations are found in districts such as Nong Chok, Min Buri and Bang Rak. Since this time period, most of the Muslim immigration to Switzerland stems from asylum seekers arriving primarily from Eastern Europe. Initially these young men were only planning on staying in Switzerland temporarily, however, revised Swiss immigration laws in the 1970s permitted family regrouping.

Consequently, these men ended up staying in Switzerland as these new laws allowed the wives and children of these young men into the country. Islam was virtually absent from Switzerland until the 20th century. Muslim merchant communities resided in Thailand as early as the 9th century. In comparison to the European average, Switzerland has the second lowest number of mosques per Muslim inhabitant, with about one mosque to every 4000 Muslims in Switzerland. Either you are utilizing any Umrah in Ramadan 2017 not, one should never boost about his wealth and affordability in front of those poor people who have a keen desire to perform Hajj but can’t afford it. Four Swiss mosques have minarets, there is a mosque in Zurich, a mosque in Geneva, a mosque in Winterthur, a mosque in Wangen bei Olten. However, the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ research indicates that only 18 percent of Thai Muslims live in those four provinces.

Popular opinion seems to hold that a vast majority of the country’s Muslims are found in Thailand’s four southernmost provinces of Satun, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, where they make up majority of the population. The Federal Statistical Office reported the religious demographics as of 2013 as follows (based on the resident population older than 15 years): total population of Muslims aged 15 or older: 341,572 (confidence interval ±1.8%, i.e. ±6150, based on a total (100%) of 6,744,794 registered resident population above 15 years). As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause deaths and disrupt billions of lives globally, people may turn to religious groups, family, friends, co-workers or other social networks for support. While the Muslim population continues to grow rapidly, the rate of growth has decreased after the early 1990s. The growth rate corresponded to a factor of 2.7 over the 1980s (10% per annum), a factor of 2.0 over the 1990s (7% p.a.), and a factor of about 1.6 over the 2000s (5% p.a.).