Estimated US muslim population (2007) = 310 million x .06% = 1,860,000 or less.
Posted on 06/03/2009 10:22:54 AM PDT by dvan
President makes inaccurate statement as White House stresses his Islamic roots
President Obama looks out the window of Marine One as the helicopter lands on the South Lawn of the White House May 22 (White House photo)
JERUSALEM – The number of Muslims in the U.S. would make America "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," claimed President Obama in an interview released last night.
His assertion, which is factually inaccurate, comes one day before he is set to deliver a much-anticipated address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt.
Teasing the speech with the French television network Canal Plus, Obama commented"
"Now, the flip side is 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. And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples."
He continued that his Muslim outreach aims to establish "better dialogue" so the Muslim world understands more effectively "how the U.S. 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."
As the Weekly Standard points out, Obama's claim American Muslims could make the U.S. one of the largest Islamic countries is not demographically true. The most generous estimates put America's Muslim population at about 8 million, which would barely place the U.S. in the top 42 Muslim countries.
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Estimated US muslim population (2007) = 310 million x .06% = 1,860,000 or less.
Let them!!
In the end it’s going to be them or us, they have declared as much.
His mind was still on the auto industry and must have been thinking of Detroit.
Too far from the ocean for that to be a lighthouse.
There’s three times as many Jews!
We’re simply going to have to come up with a NEW category of mental incapacity: Moron, imbicile and idiot just don’t seem adequate for this addled creature.
Moderater - Post #11 should be removed.
fbo -
I don’t need to LEARN anything more about islam, thanks to 911
Hard to explain why 70%+ of them voted for this idiot when it was clear to even a cursory observer that his sentiments lay with the Jihadists and their pals and he would hurl Israel into the very crowded bus space under that bus.
Guess they love socialism more than Israel.
Well, they’re going to get their belly full of the former as they watch the inhabitants of the latter either march into the sea or be incinerated by the muzzies controlling Iran.
I hope we have a Tea Party demonstration in my town.
If we do I will make one just like it!
Once again, you speak a serious error and by-the-way, neither America nor an American invented the automobile.
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