India will host the world’s largest Muslim population by 2060 despite Hindu dominance

Evidence

Although many people know that 80 percent of India observes the Hindu religion, you might be surprised to learn that it’s also home to the second-largest Muslim population on the planet (194.8 million Muslims and growing). With nearly two hundred million Indian Muslims living in the country today, Islam has now become the second-largest religion within India during our lifetimes. According to the Pew Research Center—by the year 2060—the South Asian regional superpower will have the single largest Muslim population of any country in the world (with over 333+ million Indian Muslims by that year). — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 182

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Beydoun’s New Crusades framing of Islamophobia as a global force exercised even in the most populous Muslim-majority-in-citizens’ terms nation; also relevant to Kumar on right-wing Hindu nationalism. — connects to: Muslim and Christian population shares will converge by 2060 due to divergent fertility rates. — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 23
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 182

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