In Asia- Pacific region, for instance, the share of those who say religion is very in their lives is Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan, Indonesia and Afghanistan in these countries, more than 90% say religion is very important. ..…

Far more significant are the arms industry, which U.S. aid to Israel subsidizes; the oil industry, which sees Israel as a balance to the regional power of oil-rich Arab states; the Christian right, which believes Jewish rule over all of biblical Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming; and..…

Recently, his announcements in Israel created great tensions among America and the Muslim world. ... Iraq and Afghanistan are already suffering from the consequences of American war against the Muslims not against the terrorism. . ..…

More than half (54%) came from three Muslim-majority countries – Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. . ..…

Over half of the asylum-seekers came from Muslim-majority countries of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. ..…

As we saw in our broader analysis, which drew on additional data sources, Muslims stand out in terms of the gender gap in attendance with men being much more likely to attend religious service than women, especially in Muslim-majority countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan. ↩ . ..…

But during those same decades the wider Muslim world was being turned upside down. International jihadism, born in the successful war to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, established beachheads across the region. ..…

Out of the world’s forty-nine Muslim-majority states, six retain the punishment in deference to Islamic legal tradition, despite the fact that the Koran, unlike the Bible (Deuteronomy 22:24), does not mention it. ... And in places such as Somalia or Afghanistan where the central..…

The dilemma facing American policy makers is well summarized in the forthcoming book by Vali Nasr, a former State Department adviser on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although his interest is the Muslim world and not so much the territories of East Asia, Nasr describes China and its foreign..…

Muslims, or 26% of all Muslim Americans. The South Asian region – including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – is second, accounting for about a quarter (26%) of first-generation immigrants, or 16% of all U.S. ..…

What we see with Obama's policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and the broader Arab and Muslim world, as well as his global economic policies, are a continuation of the most devastating and violent policies of the Bush administration--while placing a face on it that makes it easier to expand the..…

New industries manned by Russian workers were also introduced, and the region was linked with Russia through a railway network that for the first time brought the Russian Empire to the borders of Afghanistan, Persia, China, and British India. . After the Russian Revolution, Central Asians, led by..…