Fareed Zakaria: belief

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…Why do you think Indian Muslims have not radicalized so much? Or at least it seems that way to me, as an outsider. No, you’re 100 percent right, they have not radicalized at all. George W. Bush used to say — and it’s basically true — that it’s extraordinary to see a population of 150-plus million Muslims living right next to Pakistan, right next to Afghanistan, and there was not a single known member of al-Qaida. I think there are now maybe a handful of members of ISIS who’ve been found to have been Indian Muslims. But given the scale of almost 200 million Muslims, the fact that there are, at most, five or ten who belong to these radical terrorist groups is extraordinary. It’s not even that; they don’t vote for Muslim parties. In general, they vote for the Congress Party, which is a secular party. They don’t, even in their voting — forget terrorism — they don’t even vote for specifically Muslim or Islamic fundamentalist parties. Why is that, though?…

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