I took some time to do a TINY bit more research on this topic a while back.
There are 1.6 BILLION Muslims in the world. IF it were a religion of violence, instead of a religion with some violent people in it, do you really think they couldn’t take over the world???
Let me put it another way… IF these overly violent Muslims were to serve as soldiers at the same rate American Citizens serve (and I’m using the LOW estimate here – 0.05%), then Islam would have an army of ~80,000,000.
That is larger than the next 169 countries combined. Larger by a factor of nearly 8.
Even if you count reserves, paramilitary, and simply men of fighting age (18-65) the mythical Muslim Army still has 10,000,000 more troops than, well..effectively the rest of the world.
OH, and I’ve not taken the time to remove any Muslim countries armies from calculations – so it’s really worse than this.
Now do you see why I think you’re being paranoid?
| Nation | Active Duty Military |
| People’s Republic of China | 2,285,000 |
| European Union | 1,596,017 |
| United States of America | 1,369,532 |
| India | 1,325,000 |
| Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | 1,190,000 |
| Russian Federation | 845,000 |
| Pakistan | 642,000 |
| Republic of Korea | 630,000 |
| Turkey | 610,525 |
| Iran | 523,000 |
| Vietnam | 482,000 |
| Colombia | 449,415 |
| Egypt | 438,500 |
| Burma | 406,000 |
| Morocco | 325,000 |
| Brazil | 318,480 |
| Thailand | 305,860 |
| Indonesia | 302,000 |
| Syria | 295,000 |
| Republic of China (Taiwan) | 290,000 |
| Mexico | 280,000 |
| Iraq | 271,400 |
| Japan | 247,764 |
| Saudi Arabia | 233,500 |
| Ukraine | 232,000 |
| France | 215,019 |
| Eritrea | 201,750 |
| Germany | 182,620 |
| Italy | 179,155 |
| Israel | 176,500 |
| Afghanistan | 170,700 |
| Sri Lanka | 160,900 |
| Bangladesh | 157,053 |
| United Kingdom | 156,330 |
| Greece | 144,567 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 144,000 |
| South Sudan | 140,000 |
| Ethiopia | 138,000 |
| Algeria | 130,000 |
| Philippines | 125,000 |
| Cambodia | 124,300 |
| Spain | 123,300 |
| Poland | 120,000 |
| Peru | 115,000 |
| Venezuela | 115,000 |
| Sudan | 109,300 |
| Malaysia | 109,000 |
| Angola | 107,000 |
| Jordan | 100,500 |
| Nepal | 95,753 |
| Nigeria | 80,000 |
| Libya | 76,000 |
| Romania | 73,900 |
| Argentina | 73,100 |
| Belarus | 72,940 |
| Singapore | 72,500 |
| Uzbekistan | 67,000 |
| Azerbaijan | 66,940 |
| Yemen | 66,700 |
| Canada | 65,700 |
| South Africa | 62,082 |
| Lebanon | 59,100 |
| Chile | 59,059 |
| Ecuador | 58,483 |
| Australia | 56,552 |
| United Arab Emirates | 51,000 |
| Cuba | 49,000 |
| Kazakhstan | 49,000 |
| Armenia | 48,834 |
| Bolivia | 46,100 |
| Uganda | 45,000 |
| Portugal | 42,634 |
| Oman | 42,600 |
| Georgia | 37,825 |
| Netherlands | 37,365 |
| Tunisia | 35,800 |
| Belgium | 34,336 |
| Rwanda | 33,000 |
| Bulgaria | 31,315 |
| Laos | 29,100 |
| Zimbabwe | 29,000 |
| Serbia | 28,184 |
| Tanzania | 27,000 |
| Austria | 25,758 |
| Czech Republic | 25,421 |
| Chad | 25,350 |
| Switzerland | 25,287 |
| Uruguay | 24,621 |
| Dominican Republic | 24,500 |
| Norway | 24,450 |
| Kenya | 24,120 |
| Hungary | 22,587 |
| Finland | 22,100 |
| Turkmenistan | 22,000 |
| Sweden | 20,363 |
| Burundi | 20,000 |
| Denmark | 18,628 |
| Croatia | 18,600 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 17,050 |
| Mauritania | 15,870 |
| Slovakia | 15,799 |
| El Salvador | 15,500 |
| Ghana | 15,500 |
| Kuwait | 15,500 |
| Guatemala | 15,212 |
| Zambia | 15,100 |
| Albania | 14,245 |
| Cameroon | 14,100 |
| Senegal | 13,620 |
| Madagascar | 13,500 |
| Guinea | 12,300 |
| Cyprus | 12,000 |
| Honduras | 12,000 |
| Nicaragua | 12,000 |
| Qatar | 11,800 |
| Burkina Faso | 11,200 |
| Mozambique | 11,200 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 10,900 |
| Paraguay | 10,650 |
| Lithuania | 10,640 |
| Sierra Leone | 10,500 |
| Djibouti | 10,450 |
| Mongolia | 10,000 |
| Republic of the Congo | 10,000 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9,656 |
| Ireland | 9,650 |
| New Zealand | 9,637 |
| Namibia | 9,200 |
| Botswana | 9,000 |
| Tajikistan | 8,800 |
| Togo | 8,550 |
| Bahrain | 8,200 |
| Bhutan | 8,000 |
| Republic of Macedonia | 8,000 |
| Slovenia | 7,600 |
| Mali | 7,350 |
| Brunei | 7,000 |
| Estonia | 5,750 |
| Moldova | 5,354 |
| Malawi | 5,300 |
| Niger | 5,300 |
| Benin | 4,750 |
| Gabon | 4,700 |
| Latvia | 4,600 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 4,450 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4,063 |
| Fiji | 3,500 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3,100 |
| Montenegro | 2,984 |
| Jamaica | 2,830 |
| Kosovo | 2,500 |
| Liberia | 2,400 |
| Central African Republic | 2,150 |
| Lesotho | 2,000 |
| Somalia | 2,000 |
| Malta | 1,954 |
| Suriname | 1,840 |
| Timor Leste | 1,332 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1,320 |
| Cape Verde | 1,200 |
| Guyana | 1,100 |
| Belize | 1,050 |
| Luxembourg | 900 |
| Bahamas | 860 |
| Gambia | 800 |
| Barbados | 610 |
| Seychelles | 200 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 170 |
| Total | 10,996,946 |
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