Dear Leader ZerO claims America one of the biggest Muslim countries

Dear Leader ZerO has absolutely no perception of reality. On June 1st, 2009, he gave an interview to Laura Haim. He claimed the number of Muslims in America made it one of  "the largest Muslim countries in the world". He has no clue. The real world does not even come close to his delusional perception of it.

The full interview is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4quEKZEoYo

Transcript at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Transcript-of-the-Interview-of-the-President-by-Laura-Haim-Canal-Plus-6-1-09/

From the interview:

Q    I'm sure they will appreciate that, sir.  Thank you so much for them.

Tomorrow we're leaving for the Middle East.  It's going to be your first trip there.  What do you want to achieve with this trip?

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, we're going to be traveling to Saudi Arabia; I'll be having discussions with King Abdullah.  And then we'll travel to Cairo, in which I am delivering on a promise I made during the campaign to provide a framework, a speech of how I think we can remake relations between the United States and countries in the Muslim world.

Now, I think it's very important to understand that one speech is not going to solve all the problems in the Middle East.  And so I think expectations should be somewhat modest.

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.

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.

Emphasis mine.

This is just another illustration that Dear Leader ZerO lives in his own delusional narcissistic world of his own definition where the facts are twisted to make himself and what he does all important. He is making a trip to the Middle East to visit Muslim Nations and is making his trip seem all the more important by making up his own perception of the world.

The reality is that there are 60 nations with significant Muslim populations (around 2 million or more). America doesn't rank in the top 10, or 20, or even the top half. America ranks... 52, 8 from the bottom. To be in the top 10, you need at least 32 million Muslims. America has 2,350,000, just over 2 million. Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation has over 207 million Muslims.

The only reason I can see for his delusions and incorrect assumptions about America comes from his 1995 literary masterpiece "Dreams of my Father". Wherein he wrote:

"I tried drugs enthusiastically", "if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the worlds ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and cheap moralism"

His perception of the world was built during a drug induced haze. After years of education, he is still delusional.

Dear Leader ZerO doesn't even have a clue who really lives in America and how many there are of the various diverse peoples that makes up our Great Nation. He lives in his own world of drug induced delusions about America, and about what America needs and wants.

Video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4TqoC2iU4

 

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I've seen other calculation that put America at #35

in the world in terms of number of muslims - and since you are pretty obviously extremely childish (Dear Leader ZerO? Grow up.) I'm going to go with them.

Here is the larger point - made by Andrew Sullivan:

I take the point, but I also see the deeper point Obama was making. America is not alien to Islam; many Muslims live here as proud and productive Americans. Saying that helps chip away at stereotypes about America that hurt us and empower Islamists.

 

from the horse's mouth

US Government in 2007 says Muslim population is 0.6%, 0.6% of a United States population of 301,139,947 is 1,806,840.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html

0.6% does not make it alien to America, but it is far from a population that would make America a Muslim country.

u.s. mus. pop.

Newsweek says that the US muslim population estimates is 7-8 million(2008). Which is comparble to the figure(7 million) quoted by Obama in his speech. Encyclopedia Britannica(2005) has it at about 5 million. This figure would easily put the US higher than many muslim majority countries, (there are about 50 such countries), at about the 30 mark that NRNando mentioned.

 

 

Newsweek is always right

US Government in 2007 says Muslim population is 0.6%, 0.6% of a United States population of 301,139,947 is 1,806,840.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html

I think I will go with that rather than the numbers of a magazine that declares the decline and fall of christianity in America. At 5 million, America would rank 38th. Even going by Britannica numbers and your logic, ranking 30 out of 50, America is still in the LOWER half. Hardly one of the largest muslim nations, not even in the top half.

The CIA Factbook numbers are

The CIA Factbook numbers are not the official US Census Bureau numbers

The 30/50 figure is consideringthe place of US among  the muslim majority countries(at least 51% muslims.) That number is certainly significant. 

The estimates vary widely, no offcial figures exists and muslim numbers are often under reported in the US, the upper end estimates would put the US in company of muslim majority nations with 5-8 million muslim population such as Somalia, Libya, Jordan, Azerbaijan. And of course well above, those with about 2 million muslims such as Lebanon, UAE, Albania, Kuwait, Serbia and Montenegro. 

still not "one of the largest Muslim counties"

large (lärj)  adj.   larg·er, larg·est

1. Of greater than average size, extent, quantity, or amount; big.

2. Of greater than average scope, breadth, or capacity; comprehensive

Around 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, 194 countries in the world, 192 in the UN. Thats an average of 7,731,959 Muslims per country. America does not make the average, much less 'greater than average' to be classed as among the 'largest'. America's Muslim population would make it an 'average' Muslim country using your highest population estimates at best.

So in a class of countries with Muslim populations, being one of the largest is not being in the top 10 of 50, or top 20 of 50, but merely having enough to be a country with Muslims in it and be on the list of 50 such by your concept of 'largest'? You should use a dictionary now and then to look up what words mean.

yes, but your beautiful mind can't seem

to understand the rhetorical purpose of the statement. Obama is making the pitch that America is a diverse country with many religions, and we are familiar with Islam as we have millions living here. In fact, millions choose to live here, so at least for them we aren't the great Satan. See, he's trying to undermine the vilification of the U.S. that many radicals make their careers on. He's trying to weaken their recruiting potency. Wow, a strategic purpose.

I understand that for people like you, all you will listen to is language that puffs up your infantile ego telling you how # 1 you are.  In the grown up world, we often make points or comparisons that serve a different, more useful purpose than validating the mindless hick vote.

Rhetorical - Part of or

Rhetorical -

Part of or similar to rhetoric, which is the use of language as a means to persuade.

Rhetoric -

Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

Dear Leader ZerO used meaningless language to impress. His SOP. He is wrong on the data and misrepresenting the facts to impress his Obamabots. Non bots check facts and make their own conclusions regarding reality and what is a valid comparison. Millions chose to live here, because they where forced to run away from their country where they had no freedom and were persecuted by their own Muslim government. Want to stop the ability of radicals to recruit, stop Muslim clerics from espousing radical preaching in Mosques, and the growth of Madrassa's with radicalized teacher's.

America is Number One, for a bit longer yet, Dear Leader ZerO has only been in office a short time. It will take a bit longer before his job of weakening America for our own good so we can't be arrogant is done. In the grown up world, we don't make meaningless statements to impress. We tell the truth.