Not exactly. It refers to people from South Asia, the former Empire of India, including what is now Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc. I don't know if they use the term for Malays.
It thus includes Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists.
FWIW, the CIA lists Muslims as 4.4% and Hindus at 1.3%.
Non-trivial numbers of Muslims are immigrants from African and other countries outside South Asia, and thus aren't called Asians in India.
Acck. Last two words should have been “in UK.”
I take your point, but do you have any doubt that the child molesters and murderers were Muslim in this case?
I made a point in listening to the BBC radio and TV news at 6 O’clock and they identified the culprits as being mainly of Pakistani origin. Which means the rapists are Muslims as there are virtualy no Hindus in Pakistan (1.6% of the pop. is Hindu).
What he meant, if I understood correctly, was when Muslims do bad things the politically correct media is afraid to accurately identify them as Muslims. So they use other terms. The term most often used is Asian.
It is meant to confuse and misinform the reader and therefore prevent them from realizing what Muslims are doing.