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India has the second-largest Muslim population in the world, with approximately 176 million Muslims, making up 14.4% of the country and 11% of the total Muslim population in the world. However, there is little mention of the country in Western media, thanks largely to the fact that most of India’s Muslim population in un-radicalized. According to an Economist editorial, “a …

Shi’ite rebels in Yemen rejected the appointment of new Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Awad Mubarak on Tuesday, in a major blow to hopes of restoring peace in the country.The Huthis had stormed into the capital on September 21st and established a strong military presence quickly, manning checkpoints and mounting patrols. “We strongly reject this nomination, which is not in accord …

On Monday, Iraqi President Fuad Masum tasked Haidar al-Abadi, the first deputy speaker of parliament, with forming the new government. “The country is now in your hands”, Masum told Abadi during a brief ceremony which was aired live on television; only moments earlier, Abadi was picked by the Shiite National Alliance parliamentary bloc as a nominee for Prime Minister over …

On Friday, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, urged his nation’s political leaders to overcome their differences and form a government that could see off the advances of militants who have swept through large swathes of the country. Sistani,, who is a revered cleric within the Shi’ite majority community and whose stature dwarfs that of all politicians in …