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Muslimish: Iran, Muslim-Minority Nation

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
3 min readSep 27, 2020

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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen

GAMAAN — The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in IRAN conducted a survey on the attitudes of Iranians towards religion. It was done between June 6th and 21st of this year. 50,000+ respondents took part in the survey, where about 90% of them lived in Iran.

The biases of the respondents to the surveys are being based out of Iran mostly, being literate and above the age of 19, while having “95% credibility level and credibility intervals of 5%” for the survey. Looking at religion also taps into some associated political concepts, too, one of the more presumptuous ideas about Iran is a nation of people who believe in a supernatural, governing, designing, and maintaining, entity: God.

78% of Iranians believe in God with less than half of that believing in an after life (37%), heaven and hell (30%), jinns (26%), and a coming saviour (26%). 1/5 believe do not believe in a God, an afterlife, heaven and hell, jinns, and a coming saviour. 60% of Iranians reported not praying and 40% varied in their frequency (devotion) to the level of praying, “among whom over 27% reported praying five times a day.”

GAMAAN reported, “While 32% of the population identifies as Shi’ite Muslim, around 9% identify as atheist, 8% as Zoroastrian, 7% as spiritual, 6% as agnostic, and 5% as Sunni Muslim. Others stated that they identify with or follow Sufi mysticism, humanism, Christianity, the Baha’i faith, or Judaism, among other worldviews. Around 22% identified…

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Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Written by Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Scott Jacobsen is the Founder of In-Sight Publishing & a Member of the Canadian Association of Journalists in Good Standing: Scott.Douglas.Jacobsen@Gmail.Com.

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