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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
You do see how your average Afghani might make that assumption though... right? Seems pretty obvious? Canada is over 80% Christian, and as white as they come. Afghans probably believe Canadians are Christians just like we believe Afghanis are Muslims. True for the most part, but missing some key facts.
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Well according the the CIA fact book and Wikipedia:
CIA -Fact Book - Afghanistan
Wikipedia - Afghanistan
CIA - Factbook - Canada
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Religiously, Afghans are overwhelmingly Muslim, with approximately 89.2% Sunni and 8.9% Shi'a.
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Which makes up 98.2% of the Afghan population Muslim. That would be pretty much the entire population.
Compared to Canada
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Roman Catholic 42.6%, Protestant 23.3% (including United Church 9.5%, Anglican 6.8%, Baptist 2.4%, Lutheran 2%), other Christian 4.4%, Muslim 1.9%, other and unspecified 11.8%, none 16% (2001 census)
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70.3% in Canada are of the Christian faith.