Talk:Religion in Syria/Archive 1

Consistency with other Syria articles
This information does not currently match that in the Religion section of the main Syria article, or in the Islam in Syria and Christianity in Syria articles. Eg. Overall proportion of Muslims (85% or 90%), and proportion of Sunnis among them (54% or 80-85%). Please can we keep these all aligned, and show references. Earthlyreason (talk) 07:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Stolen Religion map of Syria
Some one has openly stolen the detailed religious map of Syria from the Gulf 2000 Project at Columbia University, developed by Dr. Izady and having redrawn it in Photoshop, has posted it on this web page. No credit has been given by the thief to the source and the thief has brazenly dropped the name of the author of this map. Here is the link to the original:

http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Syria_Religion_Detailed_lg.jpg

(now http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Syria_Religion_Detailed_lg.png; See also ..._Detailed_sm.png, ..._summary_lg.png & ..._summary_sm.png Hedles (talk) 22:20, 6 September 2015 (UTC))

Instead a link to that original map could have been provided instead of open theft of copyrighted material. Wiki should do something about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.22.193 (talk) 21:32, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Factual accuracy disputed
In the same article there are various unsourced and much changing statistical datas, not the same in the lead text and in the various sections. Actually, such statistics do not exist, apart from historical ones from (contested) censuses made more than half a century ago and 'adapted' although such data are precisely not scientifically 'adaptable'. A specific and sourced 'historical statistics' should be added and all religious/ethnic statistics elsewhere removed once and for all. There are also naming and categorizing problems, be it the eternal Assyrian/Syriac/Aramean one or the belonging of Druzes and Alawis to the overall Muslim category. Same problem in Demographics of Syria. --Minorities observer (talk) 06:56, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Contradiction in the Shia section
If I'm reading it well, the section states that 1% (I assume of the total population?) is Shia Twelver while another 1% is Ismaili. Then the Twelvers subsection claims that 3% of the Syrian population is Shia Twelver. If I'm reading it well, that is a blatant contradiction. MOUNTOLIVE  fedeli alla linea 18:57, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The only meaningful (but outdated) stastics are in the section "Official Syrian censuses", all the others should be removed as they've been invented, for partisan purposes or just by mythomans who declare themselves "experts". --Minorities observer (talk) 05:34, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's quite evident that the whole article looks very weak when it comes to data. I dont have any particular interest, just stepped in here by pure chance. But if you have the energy to lead with this issue, I will support you (not sure if there is edit-warring over here...if there is, then I'm out of here :)  MOUNTOLIVE  fedeli alla linea 20:17, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Nusairism AND Alawism
The Gulf2000 Map is very questionable, it lists Nusairism as seperate from Alawism, which is quite a mistake. Nusairism is a derogatory term for alawism, not a separate religion. It is like showing a map of Niger, where part of the population is randomly listed as "niggers". I might be wrong, but I have never heard of any such thing as a religion called Nusairism that is seperate from Alawism.

--Schlätzmeister (talk) 15:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Pie chart
My friends, I must protest on the inclusion of the silly pie chart supposedly representing Religion in Syria. The source is a study based on questionnaires answered by only 1,500 Syrians. Page 2 says: "Survey Subjects: 1,500 male and female Syrian nationals aged 18 to 65, residing in the Syrian Arab Republic." This is not representative of Syria's entire population. يوسف شمس (talk) 22:21, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 1500 as a sample size is fairly accurate with low margin of error. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Calculations_assuming_random_sampling Michel OR (talk) 07:23, 29 March 2019 (UTC)


 * There are two pie charts from the official censuses represented in this article (Religion_in_Syria). This is very immature editing by you. Can you find any other sources saying 60% Sunni Muslim and 16% Christian? I highly doubt it. يوسف شمس (talk) 13:27, 29 March 2019 (UTC)


 * No it is not "fairly accurate". Reverted. Will seek further assistance if you continue. Selçuk Denizli (talk) 13:59, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

10 percent secular or no religion people makes sense due to general long term global trends, Richard Dawkins "God Delusion" being downloaded 13 million times in arabic and the impact of the civil war and its 500.000 dead people. 16 percent Christians would be great news from my perspective but that looks a bit too high in my mind. 62.226.87.244 (talk) 20:46, 4 August 2019 (UTC)