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February 2, 2017

Trump’s order to affect 12pc of world Muslims: report

World’s Muslim population more widespread than one may think WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily freezing immigration from seven predominantly Islamic countries would affect only about 12% of the world’s Muslims, according to estimates from a 2015 Pew Research Center report on the current and projected size of religious groups. In fact, of the seven countries named in the new immigration ban – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,...