What's more, nearly 3 in 04 people who are behind bars in jails & prisons across the world, are Muslims. Every 03 out of 04 drug dealers across the world are Muslims. 03 out of 04 rapists are Muslims.Out of every 04 brainless, uneducated morons in this world, 3 are Muslims. Out of 400 doctors across the world, only 01 is a Muslim, every 100 Scientists in the world, only 0.001 is a Muslim.
What a majestic progress. Muslims like any non-Muslim person to leave his or her religion and embrace Islam, Can anybody tell me, what is the punishment Islam commands against anyone who leaves Islam and embrace other religions?? The punishment is death. right? If other religions too impose the same Punishment against apostasy, then every religion will have to be satisfied with their original numbers, no more no less and no praising of own tails. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM, GA-Accounts 1 < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim, report says > > * > http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/07/muslim.world.population/index.html > * > > ** > > *Story Highlights * > > - There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, according to the > report > - Report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life > - Nearly 2 out of 3 of world's Muslims are in Asia, report says > - Roughly 9 of 10 Muslims worldwide are Sunni, report says > > > > *By Richard Allen Greene > CNN* > > > *(CNN)* -- Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim -- and they are > not necessarily where you might think, according to an extensive new study > that aims to map the global Muslim population. > > > India, a majority-Hindu country, has more Muslims than any country except > for Indonesia and Pakistan, and more than twice as many as Egypt. > > China has more Muslims than Syria. > > Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon. > > And Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya put together. > > Nearly two out of three of the world's Muslims are in Asia, stretching from > *Turkey* <http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Turkey> to Indonesia. > > The Middle East and north Africa, which together are home to about one in > five of the world's Muslims, trail a very distant second. > > There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, according to the report, > "Mapping the Global Muslim Population," by the Pew Forum on Religion & > Public Life. That represents about 23 percent of the total global population > of 6.8 billion. > > There are about 2.25 billion Christians, based on projections from the 2005 > World Religions Database. > > Brian Grim, the senior researcher on the Pew Forum project, was slightly > surprised at the number of Muslims in the world, he told CNN. > > "Overall, the number is higher than I expected," he said, noting that > earlier estimates of the global Muslim population have ranged from 1 billion > to 1.8 billion. > > The report can -- and should -- have implications for United States policy, > said Reza Aslan, the best-selling Iranian-American author of "No God but > God." > Fact Box*Report: Top 10 Muslim countries, by population > > *1. Indonesia: 202,867,000 (country is 88.2 percent Muslim) > > 2. Pakistan: 174,082,000 (country is 96.3 percent Muslim) > > 3. India: 160,945,000 (country is 13.4 percent Muslim) > > > 4. Bangaldesh: 145,312,000 (country is 89.6 percent Muslim) > > 5. Egypt: 78,513,000 (country is 94.6 percent Muslim) > > 6. Nigeria: 78,056,000 (country is 50.4 percent Muslim) > > 7. Iran: 73,777,000 (country is 99.4 percent Muslim) > > 8. Turkey: 73,619,000 (country is about 98 percent Muslim) > > 9. Algeria: 34,199,000 (country is 98 percent Muslim) > > 10. Morocco: 31,993,000 (country is about 99 percent Muslim) > > Source: "Mapping the Global Muslim Population," The Pew Forum on Religion & > Public Life. > > > > "Increasingly, the people of the Middle East are making up a smaller and > smaller percentage of the worldwide Muslim community," he told CNN by phone. > > "When it comes to issues of outreach to the Muslim world, these numbers > will indicate that outreach cannot be focused so narrowly on the Middle > East," he said. > > "If the goal is to create better understanding between the United States > and the Muslim world, our focus should be on south and southeast > *Asia*<http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Asia>, > not the Middle East," he said. > > He spoke to CNN before the report was published and without having seen its > contents, but was familiar with the general trends the report identified. > > The team at the Pew Forum spent nearly three years analyzing "the best > available data" from 232 countries and territories, Grim said. > > Their aim was to get the most comprehensive snapshot ever assembled of the > world's Muslim population at a given moment in time. > > So they took the data they gathered from national censuses and surveys, and > projected it forward based on what they knew about population growth in each > country. > > They describe the resulting report as "the largest project of its kind to > date." > > It's full of details that even the researchers found surprising. > > "There are these countries that we don't think of as Muslim at all, and > yet they have very sizable numbers of Muslims," said Alan Cooperman, the > associate director of research for the Pew Forum, naming India, Russia and > China. > > One in five of the world's Muslims lives in a country where Muslims are a > minority. > > And while most people think of the Muslim population of Europe is being > composed of immigrants, that's only true in western Europe, Cooperman said. > > "In the rest of Europe -- Russia, Albania, Kosovo, those places -- Muslims > are an indigenous population," he said. "More than half of the Muslims in > Europe are indigenous." > > The researchers also were surprised to find the Muslim population of > sub-Saharan Africa to be as low as they concluded, Cooperman said. > > It has only about 240 million Muslims -- about 15 percent of all the > world's Muslims. > > *Islam* <http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Islam> is thought to be growing fast > in the region, with countries such as Nigeria, which has large populations > of both Christians and Muslims, seeing violence between the two groups. > > The Pew researchers concluded that Nigeria is just over half Muslim, making > it the sixth most populous Muslim country in the world. > > Roughly nine out of 10 Muslims worldwide are Sunni, and about one in 10 is > Shiite, they estimated. > > They warned they were less confident of those numbers than of the general > population figures because sectarian data is harder to come by. > > "Only one or two censuses in the world ... have ever asked the sectarian > question," said Grim. > > > "Among Muslims it's a very sensitive question. If asked, large numbers > will say I am just a Muslim -- not that they don't know, but it is a > sensitive question in many places," he said. > > One in three of the world's Shiite Muslims lives in Iran, which is one of > only four countries with a Shiite majority, he said. 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