Islam in the Central African Republic

Islam accounts for approximately 8.9% (750,000 people) of the population of the Central African Republic, making it the second most followed organized religion in the country after Christianity (90%).[1] The vast majority of Muslims are Sunni of Maliki school of jurisprudence. Most Central African Muslims live in the north-east, near the border with predominantly Muslim Chad and Sudan.

History

Islam arrived in Central African Republic in the 17th Century as part of the expansion of the Saharan and Nile River slave routes. In February 2014, tens of thousands of Muslims fled the Central African Republic for Chad as they felt they were no longer safe in the country.

gollark: Empathy is insensitive to scale and focuses on emotionally salient issues. This is undesirable.
gollark: That's during training - after this you can just use the giant matrices of inscrutable data to process an input directly.
gollark: It uses gradient descent. It basically nudges the parameters slightly in the direction that makes it do better on the current input.
gollark: No. That's too slow.
gollark: Yes. But not empathy.

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