Islam, the hidden “I” in BRICS
... populations inside the BRICS As a yardstick, the latest PEW study (published in 2010), the total Islamic population within the BRICS group (218 million) represents 90 percent of the Islamic populations of Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine Saudi Arabia and Syria (232 million). The declared Islamic population of the Russian Federation ... ... 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 ...