Talk:Religion in Ivory Coast/Archive 1

Biased
Comment moved from Talk:Religion in Côte d'Ivoire/Comments. Astronaut (talk) 13:12, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

This article is a shocking piece of Muslim propaganda. In the presentation of Islam in the Ivory Coast, the articles states that "Muslims in the Ivory Coast refrain from eating pork, lying, murder(...) as prescribed by the tenets of Islam". Further down we can read that "Islam seems well suited for Ivorians because (...)"

Those statements are biased, especially as in that same article it appears that christianity has grown faster than islam (from 8 to 30% of the population in just 20 years). In the light of this faster growth, I am surprised not to read anything about how christianity is so well suited for Ivorians. I am even more surprised not to see the chapter about christianity introduced as is the one about islam. To be fair, the article should say "christians in the Ivory Coast refrain from murdering, stealing (...) as prescribed by the tenets of christianity"....

So I think this article does not meet any neutrality standard and should therefore be edited, so as to take out those passages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.141.68.233 (talk) 23:07, 20 October 2009
 * The whole article seems to be taken from Library of the Congress Country studies with some minor adaptations (some data have been updated). Particularly the part which states that "Islam seems well suited for Ivorians" is copy pasted from Library of the Congress Country studies. I think you don't suggest that Library of the Congress is making Muslim propaganda?! About the introduction of the Islan in the Ivory Coast chapter, I agree that it isn't the best intoduction and may be edited.
 * About the fast growth of christianity in the Ivory Coast: the fastest growing sects of christianity are Pentecostal and African churches which adapted themselves with African customs and integrated them (the same situation is in Ghana for example). It means that a person, who used to be animist, continues his former practrices but now is labeled as christian, because he is now a member of some African Church.85.102.48.67 (talk) 19:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Also I'm told that one of the biggest Catholic churches on the African continent is in the Ivory Coast but we can't find a picture of it to put up on this page? Yet we can find pictures of two much smaller mosques? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.155.39 (talk) 14:23, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Sentence in intro, "Religious communities generally coexist peacefully, in part because no world religion has been enthusiastically embraced by a majority of people." changed to "Religious communities generally coexist peacefully. No world religion has been embraced by a majority of people." because it doesn't logically follow that because a world religion gains a majority there will be no interfaith peace. The U.S is a peaceful society with good general coexistence amongst religions which has a majority world religion for example. The way it was worded was POV and uncited, therefore altered. Daniel De Mol (talk) 23:18, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Adherence of Ivorian Muslims to the tenets of their faith
I removed the following sentence:

In Côte d'Ivoire, Muslims pray, fast, and give alms, plus, eating pork, drinking alcohol, gambling, lying, stealing and murder are prohibited as required by strict tenets of Islam, and many perform the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Reason: Those are all tenets of Islam. Some may adhere to it, some may not. The source given (Country Studies of the Libary of Congress) puts it a bit differently. Quote: In Côte d'Ivoire, only the most devout Muslims pray, fast, and give alms as required by strict tenets of Islam, and only the most wealthy perform the hajj.

Gugganij (talk) 22:15, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Bahá'í Faith
Bahá'í Faith is being moved to the world religions section of the article where it belongs. It is not an ethnographic religion. Daniel De Mol (talk) 12:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Official 2014 census results religion
http://www.ins.ci/n/documents/RGPH2014_expo_dg.pdf

Page 36

Please correct those fallacious statements regarding religion you have there and put real data on the ground according to Statistical office of Ivory Coast

Muslims 42,9%

Thanks

Data for other groups can be located on that page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.7.10.34 (talk) 07:57, 25 November 2016 (UTC)