At 05:26 PM 4/2/2004 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>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

Interestingly enough, this is one of the first things that tends to strike
students when  they walk into a simulation of the "Organization of the
Islamic Conference" at a (somewhat confusingly named) Model United Nations
Conference.  

Reason #786 why Model UN is such a valuable educational tool for today's
students..... :-)

JDG - And India, China, and the US aren't even OIC members.....
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               "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, 
               it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03

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