How many Shi-ite Muslims are there in Singapore?

• Jerina

  28 May 06, 20:56

  I just found out that my friend's boyfriend is a Shi-ite Muslim.
  
  This discovery kinda made me curious- how many Shi-ite Muslims are there in Singapore? I tried researchg for this topic, but cldnt find the figures.
  
  For those not in the know, Singapore Muslims are mostly Sunnis.
  
  
• fudgester

  28 May 06, 21:01

  Not too sure about this. There are few Shiite Muslims in Singapore, but their exact numbers are uncertain.
  
  In the whole world, roughly 15% of Muslims are Shiite. Now, they are mainly concentrated in the Persian Gulf around Iran and Iraq. So I'd say that at the very most 10% of all Muslims in Singapore are Shiite, while the others are all Sunni.
  
  Just don't take my word for it, for even the proportion of Shiite Muslims in the whole world is an approximation at best.
  
  By the way, any queries and discussions on Islam may be referred to The Islam Forum:
  
  http://islam.sgforums.com