By Aaron Klein,World Net Daily
Obama makes a demographically and culutrally false claim
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.”