The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, with a population of 186,000, just voted to become a “fully-fledged part of France,” which will require it to abandon some of its local legal customs. With a 61% voter turnout, the vote wax more than 95% in favor of the change in status.

Why should we care?

95% of the population is Sunni Muslim. And the legal customs they need to abandon are sharia-based. From Reuters via the NYT:

Mayotte will have to ban polygamy, raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 from 15 years old, and give women equal rights.

The Islamic justice system will be replaced by secular courts, though qadis [religious scholars who act as judges] will retain a consultative role.

95% of a 61% vote among 186,000 people, assuming 1/3 of the population is of voting age, means that roughly 36,000 Muslims voted in favor.  That’s  0.003% — or 3/1000s of 1 percent of the world’s Muslims.

But it’s a start.