ISBN: | 978-5-5107-3027-2 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There is very little information about the origins of Islam in Mexico, but most sources claim it arrived with either Lebanese or Syrian immigrants and some other Middle Easterners like Egyptians, Iranians, and Turks. According to a World Values Survey conducted in 1996 and used by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, there were some 110,000 Muslims in Mexico. However, according to the 2010 census conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) there were only 3,700 Muslims in the country.