Obama: U.S. is "One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World"

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Obama: U.S. is "One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World"

Written by JihadWatch.Org

Saturday, 06 June 2009 06:27

Right Side News is just beside themselves with this one.

What planet is he on?

"Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too," by Jeff Zeleny for the New York Times Caucus Blog, June 2 (thanks to Randall):

HAHN, Germany - As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt.
In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."...

Was that an observation or a wish?

"What I want to do is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world understands more effectively how the United States, but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy, to discuss the framework for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran, and also how we view the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians," Mr. Obama said.
The president said the United States and other parts of the Western world "have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam."

I'm all for that. And I hereby offer my services to assist in this great effort.

"And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," Mr. Obama said. "And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples."...

Here is a What-Is-Obama-Smoking? Alert:

Indonesia: 200 million Muslims. India: 156 million Muslims. Pakistan: 150 million Muslims.

United States: 2.3 million Muslims (according to the Pew Research Center).

"I think the most important thing I want to tell young people is that, regardless of your faith, those who build as opposed to those who destroy I think leave a lasting legacy, not only for themselves but also for their nations," Mr. Obama said. "And the impulse towards destruction as opposed to how can we study science and mathematics and restore the incredible scientific and knowledge - the output that came about during centuries of Islamic culture."...