ABSTRACT
In 2007 terms, the Muslim world, which consists of some 57 Muslim-majority countries spanning the two continents of Asia and Africa, comprises about 1.5 billion Believers, making it after Christianity the second-largest faith. As Islamdom withdrew, independent Judeo-Christian and Hindu nations emerged in the Balkans, in India and in the Levant, and the remaining Islamic world was colonized by Europe, until its re-emergence as independent nation-states after the world wars. Either Islamic law and institutions are given full expression and dominate state life or, failing that, if the state is non-Islamic, Muslims should try to reverse the situation or leave. The United States adopted stiff measures of screening its Muslim population or Muslim immigrants to the country, and other supervisory measures to curtail prospective terrorist activities. French public swimming pools have been segregated by sex because of Muslim protests.
