isn't he just saying that the US has a Muslim population? An therefore cannot regard practitioners of that religion as necessarily evildoers the way the Bushies did? I don't see why a comment on the size on the US's Muslim population should necessarily trigger a compare and contrast with the size of the Jewish population?
Not that I have checked the speech out yet, but I am just saying. I take it you are reading coverage of his speech in Cairo? On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't say that everyone knows that statistics lie but looking at Obama's > latest announcement tells me that he sure doesn't know it. According to this > article ( > http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/obama-signals-themes-of-mideast-speech/?hp), > Obama said that the US is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the > world". > Yes, that is true if you count us as being in the top 100 countries with a > Muslim population (we're 59th). I guess he's just pandering to the Muslim > crowds of the Middle East. How do you get them to love us? Say that we're > one of them. I'm just hoping he doesn't blurt out that America is "one of > the largest Jewish country in the world" (we're 2nd). That's sure to make > the Muslim world love us. :) > > But peace trumps statistics any day. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297940 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
