Maybe he was just saying we're one of the largest countries in the world to have a Muslim population. Maybe it could be (as some on the fringe may see it) that Obama considers us a large Muslim country. Maybe it's the number of Muslims in the US as a percentage in comparison to other countries of the world. I think the context of the quote is on that third option.
The mention of the number of Jews in America as a percentage of the world population was in direct relation to a supposed reason (as opposed to meaning) for Obama's comments. If he's saying it to garner popularity or commonality with the Muslims of the Middle East then he should not say make the exact same quote using Jewish in place of Muslim as it'll get the reverse opinion. That smiley should have brought that lampooning home. As I said in another thread, I love the substitution satire. If you replaced Muslim with Satanist then how do you think the quote would play. "The US is one of the largest Satanist countries in the world". I think if I used Satanist, Buddhist, Athiest, or some other religion (or lack thereof) it would have gotten less attention than my use of Jewish. I'll use something else next time. The curse of being me. :) On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:297941 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
