India hosts the world’s second-largest Muslim population and may rank first by 2050

Evidence

This is the state of being for Muslims in India, a nation home to the second-largest Muslim population in the world, and which by 2050 is predicted to overtake Indonesia for the top spot. A place where former neighbors and colleagues, classmates and friends have been remobilized as enemies by Modi. A place where a state that once integrated Muslims and members of other minority faiths as full-fledged citizens currently brands its non-Hindus as secondor third-class Indians. Or, in the case of Muslims, as not Indian at all. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 414

Categorization

• XREF: The demographic fact sharpens the stakes of the Indian case the reader is tracking globally.