#4 80 percent of the world's Muslims live in Asia - the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia/Malaysia.
65 percent of the world's Muslims live in the Indian subcontinent - India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Islam in the Indian subcontinent is unique... it is the only variant that developed as a non-majority religion.
It has a tremendous number of fatwas dealing with this.. how to live as a muslim surrounded by unclean kufr.
It has been obsessed for two and a half centuries with regaining the political and economic power it lost, first to the Marathas and the Sikhs, then finally to the British.
Because of this, it is the subcontinental traditions - and Islamism as developed by the Pakistani Maulana Maududi, who influenced the Egyptian Maulana Qutb, that are the example, the template, for Muslim communities in the West.
These two men (Qutb and Maududi) provide the ideology behind Islamo-Fascism. It was Maududi who fused the 7th century religion of Mohammed with modern European Fascism.
Many writers focus only on the Arabs and their 7th century imaginings, ignoring the actual majority Muslim culture with its own religious tradition.
They quote the Arab al-Wahab but not the equally influential Indian Muslim Shah Waliullah Dehlavi
Others focus on the Iranian mullahs especially the Ayatollah Khomeini. Ironically, Khomeini's grandfather Sayyid Mustafa al-Hindi migrated from Lucknow in India to Iran in the 19th century. Khomeini's ancestors were Imams for the Shia of North India and their religious traditions were formed and influenced by centuries of subcontinental experience.
The British have allowed the immigration of the one Muslim group (from the subcontinent) that traditionally existed as a minority and resists assimilation, one that seeks a separate political and economic space for itself, the one obsessed with regaining their traditional ruling status over the Dhimmis they so despise.
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