ObamAmerica: A Muslim Nation?

President Obama, From a June 2nd interview with a French reporteur:

... 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 [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. (Source: Whitehouse.gov)

As Toby Harnden points out, Obama and his army in the press mercilessly attacked McCain during the campaign when he said America (over 76% Christian) was a Christian nation. So, Obama's factual error aside (our population is less than 1% Muslim, around 1.5 million) how could we be a Muslim country, let alone one of the biggest? Indonesia has over 200 million Muslims, India more than 100 million, Saudi Arabia boasts between 25 and 30 million adherents to the religion of Muhammad. Hell, by the President's own standards, France is a bigger Muslim country than we are.

This isn't an "Obama is crypto-Muslim" rant. My point is to condemn this knee-jerk liberal instinct to commiserate with and suck up to foreigners. From Clinton to the Dixie Chicks to the current White House occupant, they throw us, our history and our values under the bus in a pathetic, sophomoric attempt to get sneering, hate-America weasels to love them.

We are America! We have contributed more to this world and saved more sorry asses who couldn't save themselves than all the other nations combined! Stop apologizing for it!

To the average Muslim, Islam is an ineradicable component of personhood and society. Christianity has no similar place of esteem in Western society. Stupid statements like Mr. Obama's only fuel further contempt for the weak horse they perceive America to be.

President Obama is naively feeding the beast of Islamic chauvinism.

Telegraph - Toby Harnden
White House Press Office
ARIS - 2008 Religious Self-Identification Survey