----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Re: Winning the War on Terror
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:21:04PM +0200, John Doe wrote: > > > > Scary as it apparently is to you: they're everywhere! > > > > * Distribution of Muslims * > > Africa 308,660,000 27.4% > > Asia 778,362,000 69.1% > > Europe 32,032,000 2.8% > > Latin America 1,356,000 0.1% > > North America 5,530,000 0.5% > > Oceania 385,000 0.0% > > World 1,126,325,000 100% > > Ummm, can you add and subtract? > > That is hardly everywhere. 96.5% are in Africa or Asia, and I'll bet if > you break it down by country you can get 90% of that 96.5% in less than > 10 countries... How much you wanta bet? :-) It takes 35 countries to get to the 90% level. The top 9 countries have less than 60%. And of those top 9, in the countries that have the second and third largest Muslim populations, they are relatively small minorities, roughly the same fraction as blacks in the US. http://www.islamicweb.com/begin/population.htm Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
