Douglas Todd: Can Canadians learn from world's largest Muslim country?

JAKARTA, Indonesia ­— When Canadians think about the Islamic world, they tend to focus on quasi-dictatorships in the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.
But the world’s most populous Muslim nation is actually Indonesia.
This equatorial Southeast Asian country is home to 260 million people, 87 per cent of whom are Sunni Muslims.
It’s been a democracy for two decades, a rarity among Muslim-majority countries.
Canada is a much different country, obviously. Our nati