Religion of world dictators and tyrants according to Wikipedia

[Hard Rock Moslem]

Assalamu'alaikum,

NOTE: This is not for debate, I'm just sharing their "official religion". And in no way I'm recognising shia as "Islam" but just quoting Wikipedia. Below are their religious belief according to Wikipedia (see at right of the page under "personal details" column).


Zine El Abidine Bin Ali (Tunisia)
Religion: "Sunni Muslim"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali


Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
Religion: "Islam"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi


Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
Religion: "Sunni Islam"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak


Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
Religion: "Sunni Islam"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein


Anwar Sadat (Egypt)
Religion: "Sunni Islam"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat


Hafez Al-Assad (Syria)
Religion: "Alawi"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad


Bashar Al-Assad (Syria)
Religion: Alawi (Shia Islam)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad


Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran)
Religion: Usuli Tweller Shia Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran)
Religion: Usuli Tweller Shia Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad


Hassan Nasrallah (Lubnan)
Religion: Shia Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah


Mustafa Kamal Atartuk (Turkey)
Religion: Not specified
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk's_personal_life#Religious_beliefs


Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Religion: "German Christianity"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_views


Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Religion: Religion: Atheism / anti-clericalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Religious_beliefs

Agusto Pinochet (Chile)
Religion: Roman Catholic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet


Ronald Reagan (USA)
Religion: Disciples of Christ later Presbyterian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan


George H W Bush (USA)
Religion: Episcopal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush


Bill Clinton (USA)
Religion: Baptist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton


George W Bush (USA)
Religions: Episcopal (before 1977), United Methodism (after 1977 - present)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush


Donald Rumsfeld (USA)
Religion: Presbyterian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld


Barrack Obama (USA)
Religion: "Christianity"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama


Ariel Sharon (Illegal state of Israel)
Religion: Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Sharon


Ehud Barak (Illegal state of Israel)
Religion: Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak


Benjamin Nethanyahu (Illegal state of Israel)
Religion: Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu


Mikhail Gorbachev (former USSR)
Religion: Russian Orthodox Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev#Religious_affiliation


Vladimir Putin (Russia)
Religion: Not provided
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin


Slobodan Milosevic (former Yugoslavia)
Religion: Atheist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milošević


Jacques Chirac (France)
Religion: Roman Catholic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac


John Major (UK)
Religion: Church of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major


Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
Religion: Not specified
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe


Kim Jong IL (North Korea)
Religion: Not specified
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il


Mahinda Rajapakse (Sri Lanka)
Religion: Theravada Buddism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa


Thaksin Sinawatra (Thailand)
Religion: Buddhism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra


Saloth Sar, "Pol Pot" (Cambodia)
Religion: Not specified
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

 

[finding light]

Asalamualaykum,

Robert Mugabe (my president) is a Christian - not sure which type but has to do with the 12 apostles I think....

 

[Aziboy]

Thanks for sharing brother...

For all those who read this, I have got to say that the word "Sunni" is only used to differentiate it for Shiites as we all know who the actual Muslims are