and speechesdoval said among its numerous religious groups islam occupies a unique and significant position with india being home to the secondlargest muslim population in the world in fact the indian muslim population is almost equal to the combined population of around 33member states of the organisation of islamic cooperationindia continues to play its role as a refuge for heterodox ideas with infinite capacity to absorb dissent no religion is under any threat it was no coincidence that despite having around 200 million muslims the involvement of indian citizens in global terrorism has been incredibly low he added yet the challenge of extremism and global terrorism compels us not to lower our guard doval said