Us Muslim Population

US President Barack Obama welcomes to the White House political upstart Joko Widodo -- the first Indonesian president to visit in a decade and a leader his hosts hope can help catalyze the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Citing the good work by Muslims around the world including India, with one of the world's largest Muslim populations, US President Barack Obama acknowledged that many in the US have a distorted impression of Muslims.

Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, has gifted an imposing 16 feet statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of education and wisdom, to the American Capital city of Washington DC.

In a survey that its creators are calling purely demographic, and not political, the Pew Research Centre's forum on religion and public life in the United States has estimated the global Muslim population will grow by about 35 per cent in the next 20 years, from 1.6 billion worldwide, to roughly 2.2 billion people by 2030. The report says a majorit...

US President Barack Obama welcomes to the White House political upstart Joko Widodo -- the first Indonesian president to visit in a decade and a leader his hosts hope can help catalyze the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Citing the good work by Muslims around the world including India, with one of the world's largest Muslim populations, US President Barack Obama acknowledged that many in the US have a distorted impression of Muslims.

Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, has gifted an imposing 16 feet statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of education and wisdom, to the American Capital city of Washington DC.

In a survey that its creators are calling purely demographic, and not political, the Pew Research Centre's forum on religion and public life in the United States has estimated the global Muslim population will grow by about 35 per cent in the next 20 years, from 1.6 billion worldwide, to roughly 2.2 billion people by 2030. The report says a majorit...