“I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. “
- Barack Hussein Obama
Exactly what alternative reality does the President of the United States live in?
Perhaps it’s time he learns how to Google on his Blackberry.
A quick look on Wiki provides a very different picture that the one the President is fantasizing about.
In terms of population size, the US doesn’t even make the Top-50 when it comes to either the total number of Moslems, nor when it comes to number of Moslems as a percentage of the population.
Note: The most commonly accepted figure from census data and multiple research studies on Muslims in America is approximately 1.8 million (out of 300 million Americans). CAIR and other militant Islamic groups make the unsupported claim of 8 million, but they have no data to back that up other than their own wild claims.
One chart in the Wiki mentioned above places the US at an impossible 38, but that is only by claiming 4.5 million Muslims in America - which directly contradicts the chart on top (and all the research) that places the number between 1.8-3 million!
Now, even if Obama is basing his statements on unfounded statements by militant Islamic groups with their clear agendas, as opposed to research from multiple, independent and unbiased research studies – that would still place the US only somewhere around the low 30s on the list.
Either way, quite far from being “one of the largest Muslim Countries in the World”.
Could this just be wishful thinking on the President’s part?
On another related issue, the President said, "And I think there have been times where we are not as honest as we should be about the fact...".
Now it could be that Obama has a problem with his honesty (ya think?), or perhaps he has simply aligned himself with the Muslim sector, and honesty be damned.
Or maybe it is time Obama educates himself more effectively on Islam - before creating policies that are bad for America (and of course, bad for Israel).
Or perhaps he actually meant to say, "The most powerful country in the world is led by a Muslim - Barack Hussein Obama" - that I could believe.
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד
