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Islam in Tonga

Islam in Tonga consists of about 47 people in a population of about 108,000. Muslims in Tonga belong to Sunni denomination.

Muslim school

Tonga’s Muslim community is planning to raise funds in the Middle East to build a new boarding school on Tongatapu.[1] The school is to follow the Tongan school curriculum, but additionally offer the Arabic language and Islamic studies as options. Sheikh Imam Abdul Fader, a spiritual leader of the Tongan Muslim community and a mathematics teacher, said their project is to build a three-story boarding school that will serve Muslims and non-Muslims, especially orphans who are often deprived of education. The children in the school will not be forced to study or convert to Islam. He also said that a small delegation of Tongan Muslims will leave in June 2007 for Saudi Arabia and Qatar to seek donations and funding for the new school, since these two countries are well known for their strong contributions to the Muslim community in Australia and New Zealand.

Notes

  1. ^ "Plans for a Muslim school in Tonga".  
  • “Tonga 2006 Census of Population and Housing,” Tonga Department of Statistics, June 2008. [2]

See also

Sovereign states
Associated states
of New Zealand
Dependencies
and other territories


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