Not just in Islamic nations but all over the world. Halal/Kosher is a ritual slaughter where an animal is not stunned and killed by humane mechanical means but has it's throat cut manually and bleeds out; a process which can result in the animal taking upto 2 minutes to die. It is said there is no pain because the sudden loss of blood quickly starves the brain of oxygen. PETA will not attack the practice because there is no sensationalist advantage.
Lots of Middle Eastern, Islamic nations have a high supply of oil which can be traded.
The Muslims all over the world belong to the single nation or Ummah. However, The Arabs, the Pakistanis, the Indonesians, the Egyptians, the Turks are a few important nations of Islam.
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There are roughly 1800 million Muslims in the world, and the percent of Sunni Muslims in the Islamic faith is roughly 85-90%. Thus, around 1500 million of the total 7000 million people (1.5 out of 7 billion of the world population) is Sunni Muslim.
To resolve violent conflicts between Hindus and Muslims in the regions.
There are probably millions of Muslim soccer players. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world (by population), and is played in most (if not all) Islamic nations.
Muslims are known through times to be the most open and tolerant religion. During the persecution of Jews by Christians at med evil times. Jews only sanctuary was amongst Muslims in Islamic nations. That is one of the reasons that there are so many "Arab Jews" in the world.
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Well Pakistanis do have about 18% of African ancestry. Same thing in other Islamic nations like Egypt Lebanon Iran Saudi Arabia. And many more Islamic nations.