Muslims are all over the world, not only in the Middle East!

"Nearly one in four people worldwide is Muslim -- and they are not necessarily where you might think, according to a new study that aims to map the global Muslim population" CNN

"India, a majority-Hindu country, has more Muslims than any country except for Indonesia and Pakistan, and more than twice as many as Egypt.

China has more Muslims than Syria.

Germany has more Muslims than Lebanon.

And Russia has more Muslims than Jordan and Libya put together.

Nearly two out of three of the world's Muslims are in Asia, stretching from Turkey to Indonesia.

The Middle East and north Africa, which together are home to about one in five of the world's Muslims, trail a very distant second.

There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, according to the report, "Mapping the Global Muslim Population," by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. That represents about 23 percent of the total global population of 6.8 billion."

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Obama and Islam

I thought about writing this post just after Obama's speech - in Cairo University - on June 4th, about the American - Muslims relations. However, I got busy with a lot of stuff at work, but now after this video started spreading on facebook, which shows parts of Obama's speech, in AIPAC, last year when he was running for presidency. On the other hand there was this video that was spreading between the Israelis.
The first video is called "Obama, the other face" and of course people are sharing it with comments like "Obama - The Hypocrite", cause they believe it contradicts with what he said in Cairo.
So I just want to let everyone know that you have to set your expectations to be kind of logical; no US president can afford to do more than what Obama did and said.
No one persuaded Obama to come to Egypt and give us this speech. Well, I don't remember that this ever happened. And NO, we are NOT that powerful nor influential to get him or the Americans on their needs to ask for a new beginning.

From here I would like to ask the Arabs and Muslims, what do we want from the US?
I'm sure I will hear different answers, none of which, will make sense. I believe the right answer should be something like "a fair player that can push the peace process forward". Except that the "fair" word in the answer is controversial.
I just want to let everyone know that Obama represents a democratic country, so he HAS to reflect what his nation want.