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A Quarter of World Is Muslim

Asia, not Middle East, is center of the world of Islam

By Jason Farago| Posted Oct 8, 09 5:31 AM CDT|

(Newser) – A quarter of the world's population is Muslim, and nearly two-thirds of the religion's adherents live in Asia, according to an extensive new study mapping the world of Islam. Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation, and India, a majority-Hindu country, has the world's third-largest population of Muslims—more than twice as many as in Egypt, the most populous Middle Eastern nation.There are 1.57 billion Muslims worldwide, compared with 2.25 billion Christians.

"Increasingly, the people of the Middle East are making up a smaller and smaller percentage of the worldwide Muslim community," one Iranian-American scholar told CNN. "If the goal is to create better understanding between the US and the Muslim world, our focus should be on south and southeast Asia, not the Middle East."

Muslim women mark the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, in August. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

Muslim women attend an evening prayer, the night before the holy month of Ramadan begins, at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, last year. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

A Muslim woman walks past by Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)

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Mr.C
Oct 8, 09 5:37 AM CDT

"1 in 4 People Is Muslim" let's study grammar before we become editors Reply

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thejoint00
Oct 8, 09 11:29 AM CDT

one person "is," not "one person are" maybe you should study grammer before you try to become an editor.

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SalParadise
Oct 8, 09 2:07 PM CDT

The "is" refers back to the "1", not the "4". It's grammatically correct. Your "sentence", however, leaves a bit to be desired.

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Mr.C
Oct 8, 09 5:38 AM CDT

we are at war with ~3 Muslim countries and prop up the economy of one (Egypt) Reply

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Snowleopard
Oct 8, 09 8:13 AM CDT

how do we prop up the economy of egypt?

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dax
Oct 8, 09 8:51 AM CDT

How ? Lot's and lot's of tax payer dollars.

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Spudsy
Oct 8, 09 11:31 AM CDT

"If the goal is to create better understanding between the US and the Muslim world, our focus should be on south and southeast Asia, not the Middle East." -- Our goal is to get oil, not promote any understanding. And the wars you speak of can all be traced back to a presence in the mideast that is meant to protect our access to that oil. Articles like this distract from the fact that we could ignore most of the events in the mideast if we could get off of our addiction to oil,

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 5:42 AM CDT

What's more frightening is the growth of Islam; it's the fastest growing religion in the world. Christianity is being eclipsed by Islam. Now, I don't think Christianity is any fundamentally "better" than Islam. Both have holy books harbouring the same Bronze-Age mentality of genocide, rape and pillaging in the name of a god. It's just that Christianity has been dragged kicking and screaming into sanity by a secular culture. Whereas Islam is still a relatively young religion; going through perhaps a difficult time. A little headstrong, full of itself... thinking it knows all the answers. Perhaps in time, both religions can look back - hopefully with beer in hand - and laugh at Islam's youth. Unfortunately, if Islam continues in the current growth trends, I fear there may not be a future with which we can look back on our time with. Reply

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prowlerzee
Oct 8, 09 6:05 AM CDT

Noted. Women are the answer. They need to be ridiculed for draping women and look at that picture...separating the women and the men. As for the human rights abuses, any countries still stoning women to death, or throwing acid in the faces of school girls, needs to be cut off completely from the civilized world. Period. Unfortunately, all we have now is Zerobama snarking that women should be "free" to wear the veil (he made this snide remark trying to put France down for correctly banning religious veils in public schools) and even worse, Zero answered one smart journalist's question about human rights by parroting Bush, saying that human rights in Afghanistan would be "ideal" (some unreachable future goal) but that his "job" was to "perteckt Amuricans." Our interference overseas is helping the more militant factions of Islam...and our "tolerance" of their medieval ways in our own land isn't helping modernize them either.

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 6:11 AM CDT

Yes, I'm not too pleased with how Obama has handled the Middle East culture. All cultures are NOT equal, Islam is a retarded culture and I mean that in the literal way. That are behind every other major culture and religion in the world when it comes to human rights. And I think any woman in a free country like Great Britain or America who wears the burqa - a symbol of oppression - is mentally ill. Now, I know many women in other countries don't have any choice in the matter, being governed by primitive pigs as they are, but they don't have to wear it in a free country. And to do so is an insult to the thousands of brave Muslim women who have already died horrible deaths trying to shake off this medieval nonsense. The burqa is a political device, designed by men. Ignorant, cowardly men who are too insecure in themselves to allow women to be themselves. For a Muslim women to wear this tent on their head in a free country is a statement of segregation and a willful refusal too assimilate.

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rosy_s
Oct 8, 09 6:24 AM CDT

Aelius i don't think ur really entitled to judge the islamic culture as retarded. i'm not defending them, i disagree with most of their beliefs but i wouldn't go as far as calling them retarded. and you should treat people of all cultures equally regardless of whether u believe in them or not.

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 6:27 AM CDT

Uhh no, actually, we shouldn't treat such a barbarous culture as equal to our own. Our culture is superior to theirs. Any culture that stones a little girl to death for the crime of being the VICTIM of RAPE needs to fuck off. Like, RIGHT now. This is not an equal culture to our own, this is a retarded (i.e. slow, for you sensitive people) culture that needs to get its shit together REAL soon.

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dax
Oct 8, 09 8:55 AM CDT

Aelius (wrote) : "It's just that Christianity has been dragged kicking and screaming into sanity by a secular culture" --- Except the fastest growing component of Christianity, Fundamentalist/Evangelicals, are reversing that trend and dragging popular Christianity AND our politics backwards into the 16th century and further back. ---- The world's reactionary religious cliques are pushing for a global showdown.

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Cegorach
Oct 8, 09 9:51 AM CDT

hey rosy_s, the literal meaning of retarded is something that has had its developmental progress delayed. Are you trying to say that the Muslim cultures are fully developed, especially with things like womens' rights?

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2-bits
Oct 8, 09 10:32 AM CDT

prowlerzee, give me two good reasons why a woman who wants to wear a veil shouldn't be allowed to wear one. Then give me two good reasons that it wouldn't be a violation of her civil rights. I know we had this argument before, all too publicly, but the only argument you offered was that "No woman would ever want to wear one." Well, supposing someone did (and some do). What now?

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 11:17 AM CDT

2-bits, as long as the Swastika remains prohibited in public, being the symbol of oppression it is, so too should the Burqa by the same logic by prohibited in public... being the symbol of oppression it is.

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2-bits
Oct 8, 09 11:29 AM CDT

The swastika isn't prohibited in public places by any stretch of the imagination. At least not in America. Neo Nazis wear them all the time. They are on several historical buildings. The town hall protesters didn't catch any trouble for carrying them (because Nazi Germany and the Obama administration are totally the same thing, amirite?) Besides, think of the poor Hindus and their co-opted symbol!

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 11:42 AM CDT

It is prohibited in most of Europe, which is where the focus of Islam is. Not America. Even still, by banning the burqa we're freeing these women we're not denying them then rights. No woman would wear the burqa if they didn't think they had to. And the only reason they think they have to wear it is if some brutish fuck back at her home demands she wear it. I don't give a shit if she insists that she wants to wear it, she doesn't want to wear it she's forced to wear it.

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Spudsy
Oct 8, 09 11:52 AM CDT

Dax, you are right about the fastest growing or at least the most influential segment of christianity being the most backward fundamentalists. And they don't see the irony in their hatred of muslim governments as they try to inject backwards jesus into ours. Aelius is also right with his first statement about muslim society being slow or held back by their religion. Maybe you believe that there is a god. But the chance that the one religion you pick out of the thousands that have been on this planet actually being the one that talks to him? Not good. Religions are created as a means of social control. Many of those controls were needed at the time. But modern media has allowed the current religions to last and spread farther than the need for those controls. They now just soothe simple minds at best and only make money or are used to control others at worst.

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riffran
Oct 8, 09 12:23 PM CDT

wow A....not bad..not bad at all..thumbs up

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2-bits
Oct 8, 09 12:28 PM CDT

You're not freeing anybody. That's what pisses me off about this. You think their lives are going to be that much better because by not allowing them to wear a particular article of clothing? Think that will improve their home life, access to secondary education, and social mobility? No, but it does trample on civil rights. It's a stupid band-aid solution that does NOTHING.

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 12:34 PM CDT

Well, by itself of course it won't do much. But the idea is that it'll pave the way for Muslim women's human rights in free countries.

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rosy_s
Oct 9, 09 4:44 AM CDT

did u people read when i said im not defending their culture?? im just saying its not up to us christians to judge them! i live in a country where the population is 60% muslim. and everything u are talking about (rape victims, stoning to death etc....) are only practiced in saudi arabia and very under-developed areas of some but not all muslim countries. i have friends who want to wear the veil because they believe in it and aren't forced by anyone to wear it. and if u did some research or visited any country in the gulf, particularly dubai, u would see how technologically and architecturally advanced they are. so their development progress as @cegorach mentioned is far more developed than u think. Everything you guys are talking about is restricted to a small part of the islamic world and not all. Again, im not defending their radical views...jsut not up to us to judge them inferior to us.

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Aelius28
Oct 9, 09 4:52 AM CDT

And you know what else? Despite its technological advancement, the citizens of Dubai are still subject to the DEATH penalty for being gay. Their culture is inferior in almost every way conceivable. And why do you assume I'm Christian? I think all religions are bat-shit, not just Islam. It's just that Islam has yet to grow up along with Christianity and Judaism.

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Fondue
Oct 9, 09 7:06 AM CDT

Aelius, I imagine many folks felt the same about Christianity during its rise.

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Aelius28
Oct 9, 09 7:10 AM CDT

Well, not really, because that was pretty much par for the course in that period of human history. But yes, if I was around during the rise of Christianity and the thousand years that proceeded it, I'd have the same attitude about that as I do about Islam today.

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cochiserocks
Oct 8, 09 5:43 AM CDT

In times of turmoil, stress and uncertainty, simple solutions to complex problems become more and more appealing. I have nothing against whatever you choose to believe in - but I have an issue with exclusivity, I have an issue with not having the whole truth presented to me (because someone somewhere thinks it will just 'confuse me'). The pillars of Islam are as truly inspirational and great as any other belief system which has the basic intention of helping humanity rise above its base instincts and form an enlightened collective - but I would suggest that history be taught along side any doctrine over 50 years old - just so you can sort the wheat from the chaff and not adhere to stuff which is no longer relevant because the reasons it was introduced in the first place no longer exist. Longest sentence ever - hope no-one passed out reading it! Reply

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 5:47 AM CDT

Unfortunately, religious doctrine is sacred to religious people. It's unchanging, infallible and no matter what evidence and reasoning to the contrary might suggest it MUST be right because it's in a holy book. The reason the absurdities in these holy books, such as the divine sanction of genocide and slavery, are there is just as valid today as it was 1500 years ago. It was written by men who, being human, desired power. And what better way to garner support than to claim that your actions are divinely inspired? To claim that the one true god who created the Universe wants YOU to go and kill the infidel and rape their daughters. Not that the men THEMSELVES wanted to do these things for power, no, who do you think they are - human? Come on.

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LovinLife
Oct 8, 09 6:13 AM CDT

"The pillars of Islam are as truly inspirational and great as any other belief system which has the basic intention of helping humanity rise above its base instincts and form an enlightened collective" Thank you for this thoughtful, intelligent post. I hope more people can attempt to gain an understanding of Islam - and by extension 25% of our world's population. Good discussion! Reply

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LovinLife
Oct 8, 09 6:26 AM CDT

Wow - it was a good discussion until you joined. Powerless. Spreading ignorance is not the best way to deal with your fear of those who embrace a different belief. Feining superiority only points out your lack of understanding and compassion. Reply

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 6:32 AM CDT

Since you're not directly responding to any particular comment, and you're not addressing anyone's name, I'll assume you're talking about me seeing as how I'm the most vocal opponent of Islam so far in these comments. "Spreading ignorance", what am I saying that you think is ignorant? Not all pejoratives are the same, so you might want to backtrack and pick a more appropriate word. Arrogant, perhaps. But ignorant? What am I saying that is not true? And you're damn right I fear Islam in the same way a Polish Jew might have been scared shitless about 65 years ago when his shop was legally permitted to be ransacked and his family shot to death. It's not an irrational fear, which I presume you were trying to imply. "Feining (sic) superiority"? No, I'm not feigning it, I'm arguing that our culture is superior to theirs and I can prove it. "Lack of understanding and compassion"? You understand these people? You understand how a thousand people can crowd a stadium and cheer on as a little wee girl is buried up to her shoulders in mud and stoned to death by primitive muppets with shit for brains for the crime of BEING raped? You understand that? Get the fuck out of here.

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LovinLife
Oct 8, 09 6:41 AM CDT

“Our culture” Let me guess…good, white, Christian America? What a small world you live in. Fortunately, God is too big to fit in your little box – as is the vast majority of the human population.

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 6:45 AM CDT

No, I don't even believe in God. I'm talking about Western culture in particular. Secular cultyre. Oh, and before any of you politically correct jackasses accuse me of being racist and xenophobic as usual, let me point out that I don't have any problem with any culture that has the common courtesy to provide basic human rights. I don't think our culture is superior to the Native Americans, Africans (with exceptions because there's a lot of Islamic countries in Africa), Japanese, Chinese, most small indigenous cultures. Pretty much ANY culture except Islam and a few indigenous cultures that still have... er... primitive methods like beheading someone for stealing some wheat.

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LovinLife
Oct 8, 09 6:59 AM CDT

Okay - so assuming that your objection is genuine, how do we go about helping these girls and women in Muslim countries? How do we stop the barbarism that occurs in the name of Islam? I don’t believe that intolerance, condemnation and refusal to even attempt understanding is the answer.

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 7:14 AM CDT

Well, I think that's your problem then. You don't think it's a good idea to not tolerate stoning young girls to death who had the misfortune of being raped. Stop and think for a second about that. Think how ass-backwards that kind of thinking is - "These girls are raped AND stoned to death because of it inside gladiator-like stadiums BUT we should tolerate this kind of thing". Condemnation: You don't think we should condemn the primitive pigs doing this kind of thing? Refusal to understand: You think there's something to be understood? You think we can come to an understanding with these men whose greatest achievement in life was to be born with a penis in one hand and a Qu'ran in the other? To answer your question though, what do we do about it? We don't tolerate it. We condemn it. And we don't try to understand this culture. That's what you do. You don't appease them, you don't go to their country and suck up to them saying "Islam is a religion of peace" "Your culture is equal to ours". You don't allow women to wear beekeeper's suits in public, being the symbol of oppression it is. You don't allow Mosques to spread hate-speech and promote Jihad in your own borders. You don't allow Muslim couples to bring their whole extended family over to your home country and receive enough revenue from the generous country that they've learned to despise for the very values that made them want to COME here from the repressive hellhole they couldn't wait to get out of. In short, STOP bloody TOLERATING Bronze-Age barbarian fucks like these. Now, it's very important to distinguish these extremists from the many moderate Muslims who just want to live their goddamn lives in peace. I love these kinds of Muslims, I even work with some in my job and they're great people. But I'm not talking about them, because they're not a problem. I'm talking about the extremists, which are not as "fringe" as you might think.

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schmidtkoff
Oct 8, 09 4:01 PM CDT

@aelius - right on brother.

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Shannonals
Oct 8, 09 7:11 PM CDT

Aelius28, I find it amusing how you clap your hand and stomp your feet for Christianity, and down play Islam as a gutter religion. Christian have an even worse record than Muslim in the treatment of people. Yes, there is quite a bit of Islam that is seen as morally wrong, but if you think for one second that Christianity is a far better religion your smoking crack.

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Aelius28
Oct 9, 09 1:26 AM CDT

At its core, Christianity is no better than Islam, yes I agree. What do you think I am, some crazy fundamentalist right-wing American Christian? They're almost as bad as the crazy Muslim extremists. No, the difference is that Christianity has been dragged kicking and screaming into the sanity of secular society, so it no longer practices the kind of thing Islam does.

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Thinker
Oct 8, 09 7:29 AM CDT

Until we, as a world, stop embracing any religion and start seeking out answers to our problems through education, science and peaceful debate, we will not become anything more than rutting, masses of ignorant people fighting over crumbs and mythology. Reply

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LovinLife
Oct 8, 09 8:25 AM CDT

Well said, Thinker. Although if we could simply let go of the belief that any one religion - or lack of religion - is 'right' or superior, we would be closer to resolving these issues. While I completely understand Aelius' fanatic discourse, that kind of hypocritical intolerance accomplishes nothing but to fuel the hatred that cause barbarism to persist.

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 11:18 AM CDT

Care to explain what's hypocritical about it?

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LovinLife
Oct 10, 09 6:30 AM CDT

All intolerance is hypocritical - unless you want to be held in the same contempt for your beliefs. Again, your outrage at barbarous actions is understandable; it is your condemnation of 25% of the world's population and your refusal to embrace cultural difference that is bothering me. Your utter rejection and demonization of 1 out of every 4 human beings – based on nothing more than sensationalistic news of the practices of minority extremists does nothing to help women who are oppressed. One more time, how do you help these women? By stripping their burqa? Seriously?

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BlueAyez
Oct 8, 09 8:30 AM CDT

Why don't some of you read the Koran and then talk about the barbarous nature of Islam. Just like Christianity, it's the interpretation of the religion which causes problems. All religions suck. All of them. Period. Nothing but superstitious claptrap to explain co-incidence and not take claim to our own ability to take control of our lives. Reply

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SpeakUp
Oct 8, 09 9:29 AM CDT

We should mind our own business about how other countries and religions behave. It is none of our concern how women are treated. Pay attention to how women are treated in this country. We should not throw stones in our glass house. I see women beaten by their husbands in the US, children starving because their father's can't or won't pay child support. Women still not being paid a proper wage in some businesses, and not being able to support themselves while taking care of their children (Why do you think there has to be abortion?) like they do in Europe. So we have a lot of nerve pushing other countries around. Let them stand up for themselves if they are so disgruntled. I am resentful that my son could not find his place in the work world due to a bad education/economy and is now having to risk life and limb to fight for what? the other young adults that were fortunate to find work??? This is like holocaust of the poor. Don't chide yourselves and think you are special or better than my son because you got a degree. We don't have a better world because of YOU. The world is worse off anyway. We still have disease, disability, and uneducated people. The only difference now is the financial mess we are in due to the greedy educated that get salaries that are ridiculous followed by the all the greedy jerks of specialties that have followed suit to the point that everybody loses. For example, I had to call a "handyman" for a small job of painting and it was like almost $800. Now only an educated jerk/professional can afford that price. I told him to kindly "beat it". You want to talk about religion--wait till your next life when you come back as a poor, uneducated, woman/man that God forbid happens to want to have a child and then watch your child grow up to be a soldier that no one really gives a crap about get killed. I know, that some educated idiot will comment on my spelling or some grammar crap. That is the problem with this world. Just stick your educated butt head in the sand. If education is soooo important it should be for FREE, FREE. By the way, I went to college, paid a lot of money too. What a waste. I still can't find a good job. I saved and did without while raising my children in crappy jobs. I lived within my means only to have to live off my own sweat savings that are dwindleing fast. I never learned this in school or college. Reply

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Aelius28
Oct 8, 09 11:25 AM CDT

@SpeakUp, the conditions for women and children in Western countries is miles ahead of the conditions in Muslim countries for many women and children. Girls have their genitals mutilated at birth or early childhood, then are married off before puberty against their will to men sometimes 5 times older than they are. They're beaten and forced to copulate and beaten more if they resist. They end up impregnated before they're physically mature, so they often end up dying with their child in labour. Those that are lucky enough (or perhaps unlucky enough) not to die then endure decades of the same kind of torment and her own FAMILY will kill her if she dares to run away. In short, the best thing for a Muslim to do is to be born with a penis. Even still, don't even THINK about being gay. Perhaps the most disgusting thing of all is that this kind of thing is happening in Europe right now in the immigrant slums of major cities and nothing is being done about it due to politically correct jackasses. If that doesn't scare the shit out of you, read it again because you don't understand. There are thousands of Muslim women in countries like France, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, who are married off as girls to older men, beaten and raped and murdered by their own family if they try to run away, and these European countries don't do ANYTHING about it because... that would be.... racist. Of... course.

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Shannonals
Oct 8, 09 7:17 PM CDT

Exactly why do you have this impression in your mind that all people who are practicing Islam worship the same way Aelius28? Hate to break it to you, but not all Muslim countries mutilate the genitals of their women. Women in Eupore and America were exchanged for doweries to marry men twice their age, without their consent. Women are beaten and forced into sex here in our country. Decades ago women in our country weren't allow to vote. Native Americans were raped and murdered by men clinging to the, "good" book, and these same men justified slavery by this same book. How exactly is Islam worse? Reply

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Aelius28
Oct 9, 09 1:28 AM CDT

These things aren't going on NOW, though. And if they were, I'd be just as critical about it. I think ALL religions are bat-shit, it's just that Islam is the last one that hasn't gotten its shit together yet.

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riffran
Oct 8, 09 11:05 PM CDT

Islam cant be all that bad Ramadan noodles are great...just put them in the microwave and zappo noodle soup...:) Reply

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