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Originally posted by Rudey
Is it growing/has it grown within the Western hemisphere and the Arab world?
Perhaps we should look into the majority of the funding for Islamic research. Arya would you happen to know which country it comes from?
-Rudey
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Saudi Arabia. I don't know much about the Arab world, so I'm not going to comment. However, you've asked about the generality of the raise of radical Islam. I've used SEA because it has the highest concetration of Muslim anywhere in the world. Another evidence we can use is the voting behaviour of the region.
In both Malaysia and indonesia, the conservatiove Muslim parties has not gained any grounds and even lost seats. In Malaysia, PAS has lot badly because they ran the Islamic state platform. They have even lost the province that they held due to the same reasons.
Indonesia saw many of the right wing Islamic parties loosing support with the exception of PKS. PKS, however, did not run with an islamic platform. Instead, they ran under the anti-corruption platform.
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