1) - "has the second largest population of Muslims in the world", and
2) - (arguably) "has maintained the highest standards of democratic freedom of any country in the Third World"
WTF??? India was torn in two by a vicious civil war and was forced to create the islamic state of Pakistan (which it later fought three wars with) to escape the civil war...
Around 90% of India's population are non-Muslem. India's success is in spite of it's Muslim minority. A large percentage of the violence in India is perpetrated by it's small minority Muslim population.