Islam is for Arabs?

Many non-Muslims have this stereotypical perception that all Muslims are Arabs in long flowing robes, covered from top to bottom, riding camels to and fro and we're all living in the deserts.

I can't blame them though because this stereotype misconception has long been perpetuated by the mischievous media.
Be surprised if you wish to but the truth is only 15% of the Muslim population are Arabs.
Which means, Arab Muslims are a minority.

The reverse is also true, not all Arabs are Muslims. There are Christian, Jewish and Pagan Arabs.(Never heard of Hindu and Buddhist Arabs though)

The Muslim Population currently is about 1.5billion (according to the latest statistics by wikipedia)

Islam is the World's 2nd largest religion after Christianity; and about 70% reside in Asia.
This itself is enough to show that Islam is a universal religion and is not necessarily connected with the Arabs.
Then again, Muslims are not only concentrated in the Middle East and Asia. There are Muslims in Africa, Europe and even as far as North America.

There have also been reports that relatively showed that Islam constitutes the 2nd largest faith in Europe itself.

So who said that all Muslims are Arabs and that Islam is only for Arabs?

I am Muslim and I ain't no Arab.

The Prophet saw said "There is no priority of an Arab over a Non-Arab and a Non-Arab over and Arab; like there is no priority of a black over a white and a white over a black. The only priority you have over each other is through piety"
(Bukhari)

-A'qilah Saiere-