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Islam in Southeast Asia

The islands the Cape Muslims came from

The largest Muslim country on earth, and no foreign Muslim army conquered it.

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Indonesia is now the largest Muslim country on earth, yet no foreign Muslim army ever conquered it. Islam came mainly with traders, teachers and marriages along the spice routes, though some local sultanates later spread it by war. And from these islands the Dutch exiled the first Muslims to the Cape.

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