24 November 2009

Rich potentates, hate preachers, and creationists - the world's most influential Muslims

The world’s top 500 Muslims - Read and vote .... A new book .... lists prominent Muslims from different fields — politics, religion, women, media, even radicals — with informative short biographies explaining who they are. It starts with an overall “top 50" list and then surveys the most prominent Muslims in their fields. [Reuters Blogs - FaithWorld] Read more

I’m a Orthodox Traditional Fundamentalist Sunni according to “Top 500 Most Influential Muslims” .... From what I read it’s clear there is a clear bias of anti-Salafism. They said that “Traditional Islam” makes up about 96% of the world Muslims. “Islamic Modernism” makes up about 1% and “Islamic Fundamentalism” makes up about 3%. I thought to myself, that’s a pretty good analysis and understand of Muslim demographics worldwide. Within any masjid community that’s pretty much what I say (give or take a few percentages). [Mujahideen Ryder] Read more