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These proportions are likely to change slightly in the near future,{{when}} as Sub-Saharan Africa still has very high population growth rates, while South Asia and the Arab world are for the most part in the midst of a [[wikipedia:Demographic transition|demographic transition]] and their birthrates are getting much lower very quickly; expect African Islam to get more press in the near future.{{when}} The distribution of Islam also gave rise to several highly secularized populations of Muslims: besides the Turks, where Ataturk was a major influence, the Bosniaks and Albanians secularized under Yugoslav and Albanian communism, particularly the former - if you were to see a Bosniak, most wouldn't see any big deal with pork or alcohol for that matter and would ''eagerly'' harp down a roast pig. In the former Soviet Union, the secularization happened to most Muslim peoples, particularly in Russia, the Caucasus and, to a lesser extent, in the Central Asian republics (even Turkmenistan, which is known for its extreme regimes, still felt some of the communist influence, and the state is officially secular). In China, the Uyghur population is currently undergoing a process of secularization that has been imposed by the state under threats of genocide - unlike in most of Communist Europe and the Soviet Union, where most Muslims went along with the flow of society and simply accepted secular practice, the Uyghurs are actively resisting China, so much so that China altered its way of influencing the Uyghurs by making ''a state approved, Communist Koran''.