Too bad you don't know your own country's history ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...irst-world-war
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Muslim civic leaders are hoping to draw on the little-known role played by almost half a million Muslims in Britain's first world war effort to help improve community relations during the conflict's centenary.
The experience of 400,000 Muslim soldiers who fought for Britain is one of the war's least-known stories, according to research released on Saturday, as leading Muslim civic groups involved in a major festival bringing together their communities this week set out why they will be taking part in the centenary as a moment of national reflection and shared commemoration.
Only 2% of people are aware that this force from an undivided India ? present-day Pakistan, India and Bangladesh ? fought and died alongside British troops, according to an ICM survey released by the thinktank British Future to coincide with the Living Islam event.
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