ok and so... On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > The official transcript has this: > "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." > http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Transcript-of-the-Interview-of-the-President-by-Laura-Haim-Canal-Plus-6-1-09/ > > A really fast look at actual numbers (rather than political talk) shows that > we are waaaay lower than just about every country in the Middle East and > many outside. But political talk can lead to peace where statistics rarely > does. > > 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? >> > > >
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