Islam - Its Meaning for Modern Man — Page 364
364 Muslim. Ceylon and Burma have small Muslim minorities. Malaya has a Muslim majority. Indonesia is ninety per cent Muslim. There is a sprinkling of Muslims in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. There is a Muslim minority in the Philippines and in the Fiji Islands. Sinkiang and the Northwest provinces of China have a majority of Muslims among their population. The Southwest province of Yunnan has over a million Muslims. It is estimated that there are altogether more than forty million Muslims in China. The central Asian Soviets of the U. S. S. R. are predominantly Muslim. The vitality and vigour of the various Muslim communities is testified to by the missionary activities being carried on in most parts of the world. The greater part of Muslim missionary activity in the past has been by way of individual effort, inasmuch as it is the duty of every Muslim to “call people to the way of the Lord. ” In recent years, however, organised effort for the propagation of Islam has been undertaken in addition to the missionary effort of Arab agencies, merchants, and travellers in Africa by the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in 1889 at Qadian in India, with its present headquarters at Rabwah in Pakistan. The purpose of the Movement is to revive Islamic values drawn from the Quran and the example of the Prophet, in every