Islam, the hidden “I” in BRICS

... times greater than that of Palestine (4.3 million) and that’s not counting the 1.2 million followers of Islam who live in Israel. PEW statistics indicate that the Islamic population in Brazil is 204,000. But the website of the leading Islamic organization ... ... number should be 2 million. That figure is more than the 1.4 million Emirati citizens who occupy the United Arab Emirates. India, with the largest Islamic population among the BRICS, shares porous borders with Islamic Pakistan (178 million) and Bangladesh (158 million), and beyond the headlines the relations ...