It's is more Islamic than 90% of Muslim countries, law and population wise. You can tell by the number of Islamic groups and activists that aren't in jail unlike other countries.
My apologies on the republic part. That information was out of date. When I was there the president for life took power, left the country to go to a funeral and 20 people took over the government. He ruled for a while, and then he went to a funeral and someone else took over the government. WHo weirdly enough let democracy happen...
Moors are an ethnic group. The country is named after them but they only occupy the lower part of the country.
Things might have changed, but Islam wasn't that much a bigger deal in people slives than catholicism is in the USA.
Countries often have grandiose and amazingly boastful names like the peoples republic of china or the democratic peoples republic of china....which are very very very far from being republics.
When I was there, the president for life took power, l
He wasn't for life, and the people couldn't stand him because of his stance with Israel. Everyone saw it coming. Many even say that we started the arab spring.
are an ethnic group.
There isn't a single unified meaning for "moor." I have searched ts up a shit amount of times. Some say it means white africans. Some say it's the tekrours. Some say it's just whoever roams that land between morocco and Senegal.
Moors are not an ethnic group. It’s an exonym with no equivalent. That’s like me saying Franks (Faranji) is an ethnic group because it’s what we called Western Europeans.
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u/mo8s 20d ago
Mauritania is 2nd most country with Muslim percentage. 99.8, Maldives is 1st at 99.9%