Some Interesting Facts about Muslims.

OK. So I addressed religion in my last post.

And It stated a interesting discussion.

It was on Muslims. Or rather the way most people think about them.

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So I Decided to make a nice little list of interesting facts about Muslim country's.

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Geography.

#1. There are 47 Nations in the world that have a population that is at least 50% Muslim.

#2. There are give or take about a Billion and a half Muslims in the world.

#3. Most Muslim Nations are in fact no in the Middle east. With a little over a dozen being in the middle east. (Depending on your idle of middle east) About a dozen in Asia Major. And the rest. (Most of them) Being in Africa.

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People.

I already addressed that there are about a billion and a half Muslims.

#1: out of that 1.5 billion about 20% are Arab. Thats about the same % of Africans that are Christian. So when people use the word interchangeably there a little off base.

#2: Out of 140 million arabs. About 14-15 million are Christian's. That more Arab Christians then Jews.... Like all the Jews.. Put Together... In the world.

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So stuff people mess up ALLOT.

#1. Women.

A: Burqas and Niqabs. (Those are the viels some Muslim Women were)
The fact of the matter is that there are only two Nations in the world that require women to were these. Many more Muslim Nations Actually ban them. They are in fact not even part of Muslim Culture. Rather part of the Culture of a few nations around the world.

B: France a nation that has made a big deal about Burqas Did a study were they found that there were about three million muslim women in France and out of those less then 500 were a burqas.

C: Of the five largest Muslim Nations. (By population) In the world Four have had Female Leaders. And in all five Muslim Nations have had six females leaders. (Bangladesh twice)

Indonesia. Megawati Sukarnoputri

Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto

Bangladesh. Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina.

Turkey. Tansu Çiller

Kyrgyzstan. Roza Otunbayeva

So really it seams that the big offender in womens rights have been.

Iran.

Saudi Arabia.

And Afghanistan under Taliban Rule.

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And there are some christians groups that dictate what there women were as well.

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Tomas Jefferson taught himself how to read Arabic by reading the Quran.

And held Ifrar on Ramadan in the WHITE HOUSE. Now I am by no means saying he was a Muslim, My point was that allot of the founding fathers had a good deal of admiration for the Muslim world.

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And why wouldn't they?

For a good deal of history the Muslim world has been advanced. Welthy and Humane.

Muslims and Persians were pretty famously good hosts for a good portion of history. And In the Crusades treated captured prisoners and civilians MUCH better the Christian Army,s.

And Muslims advanced many disciplines wile the Christians were in the dark ages.

In fact the renaissance was largely started because A: Priests had kept good in monistanys for a long time. B: Crusading knights brought back knowledge from the Muslim world. Much of it having been forgotten by European.

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The... trouble we see in the Muslim world right now only started after Europians "Colonized" The middle easy and then left. And can kind of be seen as a violent backlash to western influence starting in the 1930-50's.