Obama: U.S. One of the Largest Muslim Countries - WRONG!
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Sunday Paper - June 7th, 2009
As the Barack Obama world-wide appeasement and apology tour plodded ahead this past week, we heard an interesting comment made on Monday. Obama told a French reporter, “if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Once again we see Obama being dishonest.
The statement represents one or more of the following: ignorance, wishful thinking (aka ‘hope’), or just a blatant lie. His arrogance certainly plays a role in making that statement as well, remember he went to Harvard, so he’s smarter than the rest of us combined. We dare not, nor do we have the right to question anything he says.
“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 said.
Those words were Obama’s follow up to saying “we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.” How could anyone disagree with Obama. Afterall, roughly two percent of the United States population is Muslim.
The highest estimate of the number of Muslims in America is about 8 million, out of a population of more than 304 million. That’s about two percent, which is nowhere near the top percentage for countries around the world.
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Estimates of where the United States ranks in terms of the largest Muslim nations show us coming in anywhere between 24th to 50th largest - meaning that somewhere between 23 and 49 countries are larger Muslim nations than the United States. Telegraph.co.uk completed a thorough statistical breakdown of the topic:
UPDATE: The excellent Don Surber crunches the numbers and points out that Obama’s claim is highly dubious. According to Surber, the US has an estimated three to eight million Muslims, less than one per cent of the world’s total and less than at least 23 other countries.
The average claim for the US Muslim population is about six million. The precise figure is difficult to get because it’s not included in US census data and many put the figure at much, much less.
But even if we assume there are six million Muslims in the US, that makes it only the 34th biggest Muslim country in the world - behind Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, China, Ethiopia, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Tanzania, Syria, Malaysia, Niger, Senegal, Ghana, Tunisia, Somalia, Guinea, Kenya, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso and Tajikistan.
UPDATE 2: Debbie Schlussel cites a reputable survey by Pew that puts the number of Muslims in the US at 1.8 million. This would make it the 48th biggest Muslim country, after the above list plus France, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Germany, Kuwait, Oman, Eritrea, Lebanon and Serbia and Montenegro - and just above Britain, which would be the 50th.
This from The Washington Times - June 2nd, 2009
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/potus-notes/2009/jun/02/obama-us-one-of-largest-muslim-countries/
This from Telegraph.co.uk - June 3rd, 2009
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