According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life, in its most recent poll, there were 1.6 billion Muslims in the world in 2010, and 2.18 billion Christians.
It should be noted, though, there have been probably fewer than 50,000 Muslims demonstrating around the world against the United States since a 14 minute trailer for the film, the “Innocence of Muslims,” was uploaded onto YouTube on July 1.
According to a timeline published on Sept. 21 by the Arab network al-Jazeera, the turmoil started when a Coptic Christian activist in the U.S. sent a link to Gamel Girgis, an Egyptian reporter who writes about Coptic Christians for al-Youm al-Sabaa, a Cairo newspaper.
On Sept. 8, Khaled Abdullah, a prominent fundamentalist television host famous for his finger-wagging fire-brand statements on al-Nas, a station favored by fundamentalist Salafis, showed the clip dubbed into Arabic.
Three days later, on Sept. 11, about 75 terrorists, who according to some reports were members of Ansar al-Shari’ah (Followers of Islamic law), a fundamentalist Libyan militia, surrounded and breached the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. There has been much debate about whether it was a spontaneous outburst, a crime of opportunity, but the U.S. has now acknowledged was a terrorist attack. U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and https://www.vvsiesfrm0.online three other Americans were killed.
The flame was lit. Since then, thousands of mostly young men and boys have demonstrated against the U.S. around the world — in London, Beirut, Kampala, Khartoum, Peshawar, Dhaka, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, sometimes attacking violently U.S. Consulates and Embassies.
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