I ask you, when there is a Mars colony by 2036, what kind of Muslim do you want represented there ? A sensible one who will be really respected and automatically trusted to contribute to the survival of the settlement, or someone like these protesters in Sweden who cannot be trusted but feared and cannot be trusted to keep the settlement alive ?
Not slaves but engage in dialogue. When confronted by stubbornly biased people like the late Christopher Hitchens, push to the front sensible and intellectual Muslims like Tariq Ali ( read his Islam Quintet ) and not the ameer of the local Tablighi Jamaat.
Yes,
@newb3e, I confirm that the first mosque in the Indian subcontinent was built in Kerala in present India in 629 AD, much before Tariq ibn Ziyad began his conquest of Spain and Portugal in 711 AD. The Kerala mosque still is in use. More info
here.
Also, I am not sure but it is possible that India has the most mosques in the world.
@Indos, is this true about Indonesia ?
newb3e, about the recent Bangalore riots, I am not sure but I will ask
@Joe Shearer if the spark for the riots was set off by a Muslim bad-naming a Hindu deity.