Kingsley Joseph is a social hacker, viral marketer and virtual economist at Digital Chocolate. These are his words, not his employers'.
22
Nov
A peculiar American ignorance indeed. The countries with the largest number of Muslims in the world are, in order: Indonesia, India & Pakistan. All of them are democracies (at least in name), and 2 of them have never really been a threat to peace in the USA.
:3. They don’t realize that most Muslims aren’t Arab. Going back to point #1, the imagery of what it means to be Muslim in the United States is so tied in with our images of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (not even the Arab world on the whole!) that even on progressive blogs, you will often see people refer in blanket terms to Muslim women’s dress as “the burqa.” What they don’t seem to realize is that the countries with the largest Muslim population are all in Asia (where, mind you, women don’t even wear the burqa), and not Arab at all!
