[lit-ideas] Re: Brigette Gabriel again supporting Israel
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:46:01 -0400
I never quite understood the difference between India and Pakistan. Why
did they partition? They're essentially the same people but they hate each
other, would even be willing to nuke each other out of existence. The
human condition again? I guess I can look it up on Wikipedia. I'll search
"human condition."
> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/2/2006 9:34:17 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Brigette Gabriel again supporting Israel
>
> JK
> >What percentage of Arabs are not Muslim?
>
> JE:
> >No idea. What percentage of Muslims are not
> Arab?
>
> "There are an estimated 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide. They live in every
> world region and belong to many different cultures and ethnic groups. The
10
> countries with the largest Muslim populations, in descending order, are
> Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, and
> China. Of these, only Egypt is an Arab country, and despite the
stereotypes,
> only 193 million of the worldâ??s Muslimsâ??15 to 18 percent of the
totalâ??are
> Arabs. "
>
> http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam.htm
>
>
>
> How many Arabs are not Muslims? 'Arab' is a speaker of Arabic, it's not
a
> nationality. How many speakers of English are not Christians?
>
> There are more Muslims in Indonesia than all the rest of the world
combined.
> Worldwide, only 10 -15 percent of Muslims are Shiite, but in Iraq the
Shiite
> comprise approximately 65 percent of the population. Of the roughly 35
> percent Sunni, 15 percent are sunni Arabs, 20 percent are Sunni Kurds.
>
> You can find a break down by country of the Muslim population by number
and
> percentage at:
> http://www.islamicpopulation.com/asia_general.html
>
> Have fun with it.
>
> Andy Amago
> Beverly Hills
>
>
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