Demographics
What is false?
What is the name given to a government that is led by a religious ruler?
What is theocracy?
This is the title given to a religious leader of a Muslim community.
What is caliph?
This group of Muslims make up 80%-85% of the world's Muslims
Who are Sunni Muslims?
This extremist organization, responsible for the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., is motivated primarily by the killing of infidels and Shiite Muslims.
This people group in Iraq and Syria are primarily Shiite and tend to be more accepting of Western influences.
Who are the Kurds?
What is the name given to the core practices of Islam?(100 bonus points to each of the practices named)
What are the Five Pillars?
This Islamic holy book provides followers with guidelines to live
What is the Quran?
This sect of Islam, primarily in the northern Africa region, makes up a mere 5% of the world's Muslim population.
Who are the Sufis?
True or false: Shiite forces in Iraq opposed the U.S. invasion of the country in 2003.
What is true?
The majority of the world's Muslims live in this region of the world.
Where is sub-Saharan Africa?
What is jihad?
This Arabic term refers to the teachings of Mohammad on specific matters
What is hadith?
This sect of Muslims believe that religious leaders must be a direct descendent of Mohammad
What is Shiite?
This extremist group sought to create an Islamic caliphate across Syria, which grew to roughly equivalent in size to California and held the major city of Raqqah in Syria?
Who are the Islamic State?
Approximately how many Muslims live in the world today?
What is two billion?
In the Islamic faith, this religious leader is God's closing prophet.
Who is Mohammad?
The element of Islamic law refers to how Mohammad lived his life (and how Muslims should follow)
What is Sunna?
This sect of Islam tends to view jihadism as an offensive battle to spread Islam across the world.
What is Sunni?
This Iraqi dictator was deposed in 2006 by U.S.-led coalition forces and was at one time thought to be responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
Who is Saddam Hussein?