I think you're getting your population statistics messed up.
From here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4021/is_2_25/ai_97818978
Afghanistan has a population of nearly 30,000,000 living in a near fuedal society. American muslims are generally well educated people who have very moderate views compared to he muslim population in other western countries. In fact, they fit right in to this country better than most immigrants or minorities.
The muslim religion is over 1400 years old, if something is over a thousand years old, how can that be considered young? Consider that all the protestant sects of christianity are much younger and the great schism between the catholic and orhtodox churches occurred in the 11th century after islam was well established. Scientology is a young religion, islam has matured through centuries of discussion and application of its guiding principles.
I'm not even muslim and i think i understand this religion enough to say that you don't know much besides what the news and biased points of view have told you about islam. It's not a perfect religion, especially in the way some people handle it, but neither is christianity when a lot of chaos and destruction occurred because of people's beliefs in that faith.
I learned about islam from an objective point of view and by understanding not just the religion but also the culture that it emanates from. Why do saharan african muslims not follow and even do things contrary to islamic law? It's in their culture. I suggest you learn more about this religion before you distrust it and throw it out the window. It's not the relgion, but the people behind it who change its image.
