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There are extremists in every culture and religion. Even extremists at both polar ends of the same religions or cultures. It is when the extreme takes over from the norm that things start to get out of hand. Sometimes the extreme leads to a new norm, but other times it leads to chaos and death. Sometimes the extremist minority becomes the normal majority after a few hundred years (Christians in Rome). Sometimes they become the power only to become the norm and fall to another extreme (Communism in Russia). Only history will decide what is what long after the events have past.
As for Muslims in anime? Considering how most anime is basically set in Japan, the numbers of muslims represented will be few and far between. At least in terms of were they are obviously religious muslims. There have been several accounts of characters from Middle Eastern nations, North Africa, and other well known muslim majority countries and regions. The lead in Full Metal Panic grew up in Afghanistan during that fictions version of the Russian-Afghan War. I do not think his belief system every came up during the show's three seasons, so we don't know if he was even a muslim. Religion unless it is based around a holiday or Japanese tradition, generally doesn't seem to come up in the average anime unless it is a plot point. I would note however that the Christian religion has made an effect of a lot of anime plot points, accurately protrayed or not (usually not).
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