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by Idéfix Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:59 pm
Google's first autocomplete entry for the phrase "When will India" is "surpass China?" Here is a map of the world with the top autocomplete for a similar search with each country's name.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7e6t4g/the_first_search_suggestion_for_when_will_on/
The question for a lot of Latin America is about sports. The question for the US is about war. For China and Pakistan, it is about collapse. For many Arab countries, it is about when they run out of oil. I was surprised by the "collapse" question for Sweden and the questions for the Central Asian former-Soviet republics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7e6t4g/the_first_search_suggestion_for_when_will_on/
The question for a lot of Latin America is about sports. The question for the US is about war. For China and Pakistan, it is about collapse. For many Arab countries, it is about when they run out of oil. I was surprised by the "collapse" question for Sweden and the questions for the Central Asian former-Soviet republics.
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Re: When will ... ?
by southindian Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:54 pm
Q When will racism end everywhere in the world?
A. Never
Q. When will Muslim religion become majority religion in most developed countries?
A. 2117
A. Never
Q. When will Muslim religion become majority religion in most developed countries?
A. 2117
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Re: When will ... ?
by Idéfix Mon Nov 20, 2017 4:56 pm
In 2117, the answer will be "upgraded" to 2217.Q. When will Muslim religion become majority religion in most developed countries?
A. 2117
Religion will continue lose its hold on society in general, and public life in particular. Islam can't escape this. In a hundred years, I hope religion will be irrelevant to politics and economics and the question of which religion is in the majority will be irrelevant to how society works.
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Re: When will ... ?
by garam_kuta Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:49 pm
Idéfix wrote:In 2117, the answer will be "upgraded" to 2217.Q. When will Muslim religion become majority religion in most developed countries?
A. 2117
Religion will continue lose its hold on society in general, and public life in particular. Islam can't escape this. In a hundred years, I hope religion will be irrelevant to politics and economics and the question of which religion is in the majority will be irrelevant to how society works.
any religion as we define and know it today, should not be in power, administering the government.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/19/fzgps.01.html
Everywhere that this phenomenon has actually taken power, it's very quickly become hated. In Afghanistan, as you say, the Taliban were hated. In Algeria, the Islamic radicals, the FIS or the GIA very rapidly were unpopular. The mullahs in Iran are not really beloved. And so, yes - and now in Iraq.
I think wherever this thing gets into control, people very rapidly discover they don't want it.
RUSHDIE: I think to an extent, yes. But I think it always seemed to me that it would be likely that ISIS would be defeated militarily.
I think people who have reported on the war say that they're actually - friend of mine, a French journalist said, the thing about ISIS is they're good terrorists, but they're bad soldiers. So, when you confront them on the battlefield, they run away. So, that was probable.
But I think the difficulty now is that there will be, to a certain extent, a splintering of the danger, so that I think we may face more of the - like the individual low-tech attacks that we've been seeing across Europe, with people driving trucks into civilian populations and so on. I think there may be a bit more of that.
But I think there is really a reason to think that the tide has swung against that kind of fanaticism across the Muslim world.
ZAKARIA: That's a big thing for you to say because you've been worried and warning about the fact that there has been this cancer within Islam.
RUSHDIE: I mean, I think it's still there. I'm not even saying it's in remission. But I'm saying that it's having a bad time right now. And that's good for all of us.
ZAKARIA: Could it be because it's now been tried as it were in so many places and nobody likes it? The Afghans hated the Taliban.
RUSHDIE: Exactly, exactly. Everywhere that this phenomenon has actually taken power, it's very quickly become hated. In Afghanistan, as you say, the Taliban were hated. In Algeria, the Islamic radicals, the FIS or the GIA very rapidly were unpopular. The mullahs in Iran are not really beloved. And so, yes - and now in Iraq.
I think wherever this thing gets into control, people very rapidly discover they don't want it.
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