How many Muslims live in Germany?

Bess writes: Muslims in Germany are a minority, but it seems, a rather larger one than the Government suspected. A Government poll has discovered that approximately five per cent – nearly 4 million – of Germany’s 80 million citizens are Muslim. The report was commissioned following complaints that the State had little reliable information on Germany’s Muslims. Previously it was thought, based on immigration records, that between 3.1 – 3.4 million Muslims lived in Germany. About 60 per cent of Shi’ite and 91 per cent of Sunni Muslims adhere strictly to the Muslim ban on consuming pork and drinking alcohol, according to this report from Deutsche Presse-Agentur, cited on Monsters and Critics.